As a helpful public service, we remind the tens of thousands of Medical Examiner blog readers across the fruited plain that most of these unified states will revert to standard time at 2:00 a.m. tomorrow by the time-honored formula, SPRING FORWARD, AUTUMN REVERT. Or as some say, “Spring Forward, Autumnal Regression.” Either version is fine. (In some areas people are …
Today marks exactly 198 years
Can you imagine having a tooth pulled without novocaine? Having an ingrown toenail treated without local anesthesia? What about having a wound of some kind cauterized with a red-hot poker while you’re watching, fully alert? As one doctor says in this week’s cover articles, medicine at one time was like the Spanish Inquisition. The screams of patients haunted him decades …
Actual Reader Mail
We get letters. We get phone calls. We get e-mail. It is a rare week, indeed, when a reader doesn’t spontaneously pick up a phone, keyboard, tablet, cellular device, pen (ballpoint, roller ball, felt tip, fountain, etc), pencil (usually a No. 2), pad and paper, envelope and stamp and give us a written or verbal high five – and sometimes …
Very warm off the press!
Yes, it’s yet another issue of The World’s Most Salubrious Newspaper, the Medical Examiner. (The print edition, to clarify, is Augusta’s Most Salubrious Newspaper.) This issue is, as usual, chock full of splendid reading that will encourage you to live, eat, and sleep healthier. Our 3-word mantra: health, wellness, medicine. As this issue illustrates, sometimes the medicine comes in the …
Consumer Alert!
As the weekend shopping period kicks off, the Medical Examiner’s Consumer Protection Division issues this alert, warning area consumers that low prices have been raised. This is just one of the many services enjoyed by readers of the Augusta Medical Examiner. Thank you.
So long, baseball. See you next spring.
Oh, it’s not over yet. The playoffs have barely begun. But for fans of the local MLB franchise, the Atlanta Braves, it’s so long for now. No more moments like these until next spring.
Here’s our annual CB radio issue. 10-4?
Just kidding, boys and girls. It’s all about health, wellness, and medicine. If that sounds like a yawner when you were expecting CB radio, then maybe you need to get out more. Health and wellness are, well, like this horse: What’s in this issue? All kinds of cool stuff. Just nothing about CB radio. Sorry!
The government shutdown
Some friends of mine have been planning a fall New England leaf-freak trip for months. They’ll be in Boston tomorrow and from there driving up to Maine. One of their scheduled stops was going to be Maine’s spectacular Acadia National Park. But as of today, the park is shut down because of budget gridlock in Washington. It makes me wonder: …
Welcome Augusta Ironman 70.3 participants!
The city is awash in toned, taut, and trained athletes here for the Augusta Ironman competition on Sunday, a 70+ mile run, bike and swim competition. There are so many participants to the sold-out event that news reports estimate the economic impact in millions upon millions of dollars. Wow. That’s a lot of aspirin, ace bandages, heat wraps and Gatorade …
Is anybody watching?
The release of security camera footage from last week’s Washington Navy Yard shooting makes me wonder: what’s the point of security cameras? They are becoming more and more ubiquitous, and are undoubtedly helpful after the fact in identifying and capturing wanted subjects who have fled and are at large. But is anyone watching them in real time? It would seem …