Let’s take a trip down memory lane to Masters Week of 2008. The previous year, many people thought Zach Johnson won the Masters (although hardly anyone could even remember his name a year later). The Augusta Medical Examiner broke the true story of the real winner – ELVIS! – and we published the photo to prove it in a 2-page …
Coming tomorrow:
What would you get if you combined the Augusta Medical Examiner and the Augusta National Golf Club? No need to wonder. You can find out in this very space tomorrow. Don’t miss it!
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Belatedly marking the assassination of Martin Luther King 45 years and two days ago, here’s a link to his April 16, 1963 letter to eight Alabama clergymen, responding to their suggestion that “Negroes” should obey even unjust and racially motivated laws as long as those laws are on the books. If you have never read King’s masterful response, you are …
The digital Medical Examiner
The recipe for better health: click here. Why is this version better than the print edition? For one thing, it has color on every page. Oh, and it has the correct solution to this week’s crossword puzzle. And that’s just for starters. Open publication – Free publishing – More health
Saturday Night at the Movies
Here’s a short but eye-opening look at accuracy in food labeling. I think you’re about to be surprised (probably not pleasantly).
Leave Honey Boo Boo alone!
Adam Levine says she represents “the decay of Western civilization.” Since when? I’ve never seen the show personally, but if this clip is any indication, I fail to see how she’s contributing to the decline of anything – except maybe ignorance.
Augusta’s Air Quality Enemy?
According to press releases from Pam Tucker, director of Columbia County’s Emergency & Operations Division, Fort Gordon’s Wildland Fire Team has conducted the following “prescribed burns” so far this week: Tuesday: 844 acres Wednesday: 952 acres Thursday: 939 acres Today: 617 acres TOTAL THIS WEEK: 3,352 ACRES Today’s press release warns that the city of Harlem is being impacted by …
Calling all subscribers
…and Examiner readers in general. Get your nose out of that mailbox. And the rest of you too. Yes, it has been two weeks since the last issue, but there’s no paper today. To set the record straight, since early times the Medical Examiner has been published every 1st and 3rd Friday. So when a month has five Fridays – …
A word to all doctors… and patients
Six and a half years ago (August of 2006), I was diagnosed with colon cancer. I had surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, the whole nine yards, and have pretty much felt fit as a fiddle ever since. I remember coming home from the hospital with a prescription for a massive amount of Oxycontin (or perhaps it was Oxycodone). The prescription was …