Where’s the bone?

What bone? The one that was thrown to the Augusta community when GRU announced that it heard the public outcry to Save The A. That they would include Augusta in the name of the new university formed by the consolidation of Augusta State University and Georgia Health Sciences University. Well, they did save the A, technically, even if was only …

SUGGESTION BOX #2

Unlike perhaps any other person or organization in the large Augusta medical community, the Medical Examiner is everywhere. We visit more than 500 doctors offices at least twice a month, along with deliveries to 14 area hospitals. We see things. We have suggestions: • Once the sun goes down, Harper Street in front of the Children’s Medical Center is darker …

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Medical Examiner columnist Helen Blocker-Adams was today awarded a grant from GHSU’s Institute of Public and Preventive Health. Excerpts from a GHSU press release: The Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Georgia Health Sciences University today awarded community-based research grants totaling $330,000 through its Community Health Partnership Grants Program. The grants pair recipients from the Augusta region with GHSU …

OBAMA TRIES TO SAVE THE A

CAN OBAMA SAVE THE A? He’s trying, but it isn’t going well so far. One thing you can say for Dr. Ricardo Azziz: the man is tenacious. And he’s what is sometimes called a company man. That’s someone whose allegiance to his employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers. Despite poll results (which he requested), he mounted …

I Hate [Stubbornness] Monday

For the record, I hate stubbornness every day, not just Mondays. Pig-headed obstinacy that knows no reason. Digging in the more you see evidence that you’ve made a mistake. Being too proud and arrogant (translation: insecure) to admit you’ve made an error and set matters straight. This, in the humble opinion of the Medical Examiner, is exactly what the Georgia …

Nnouncing the new MEDICL EXMINER!

See wht it would be like in Gust if we cn’t “Save the A”? Rumor has it that today’s visit of the Governor to our fair city could bring with it news of a GHSU name compromise – or even the abandonment of Georgia Regents University, the most unpopular name since Adolph (if not Judas). If the rumors are true, …

REMINDER: Bloodless Medicine Seminar Today

A reminder of a previous post (Oct. 4*) the Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program will host a free community seminar Saturday, Oct. 20 highlighting techniques enabling medical and surgical treatment without blood transfusions. The seminar, themed “Bloodless Medicine and Patient Blood Management,” is free and will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at …

The Board of Regents on hidden camera!!!

Through a confidential source the Medical Examiner has obtained this hidden camera video. The gentleman shown is Augusta and the woman is the Board of Regents.

WE HAVE A WIENER!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Ricardo D’Azziz! Thank you to the thousands of Augustans and people around Georgia and the nation who submitted suggestions for the former Dr. Ricardo Azziz. The top names submitted were added to the names our Blue Ribbon Steering Committee presented, and to those the national consulting firm we spared no expense to hire provided. We discarded all …