Fresh news!

Yes, here it is, the latest issue. Remember the name Ryan Heckendorn? He sent us a story of amazing weight loss exactly one year ago. In connection with our cover story (why is it so hard to lse weight – and then keep it off???), we check in with Ryan for an update. Is he another one of those “lost …

Your paper has arrived

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What’s black, white, and read all over?

Answer: The Medical Examiner, although to be fair, it also has blue, green, yellow, red… pretty much the whole spectrum. If you don’t believe that, click over to page 16 for proof. On that same page: where Pink Floyd and healthcare intersect. Also: the debut of a new series sponsored by Queensborough National Bank profiling exceptional figures in Augusta’s long …

Today’s smokin’ Examiner

Can’t believe I didn’t post this first thing this morning here. It was online at issuu.com/medicalexaminer bright and early, though. Just in time for Saturday breakfast, this issue’s cover story: how Victorians chowed down big time and didn’t suffer the consequences. And how you and I can party like it’s 1899. Hint: the key is what we do when we’re …

It’s like April Fool’s every day!

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the major advertisers in Augusta’s healthcare market for their support of the Medical Examiner. These are organizations – University Health System, GRU-slash-MCG, Doctors Hospital, Trinity Hospital and others – with HUGE advertising budgets. They’re in the Chronicle almost daily, in Augusta Magazine and Columbia County Magazine, in the Metro Spirit, Augusta Family, …

Azziz: The Week So Far

Well let’s see… on Sunday he was compared to Stalin in a bit of artistic hyperbole wrought by the inimitable Rick McKee in The Augusta Chronicle’s Opinion section (below). Today Dr. John Salazar writes, in the Chronicle’s Letters to the Editor, of his disappointment with the collapse of the “Save the A” movement, throwing in a subtle, between-the-lines reference to …

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 …

TONIGHT medical history comes to life

Friends of the Medical Examiner Michael Wolff and Janis Ann Parks have teamed up to take a unique trip through the pages of Augusta’s medical history. Wolff is the entrepreneur behind Augusta Ghost Trolley, tours that began in October of 2011, offered every Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 and 9 pm departing from the Augusta Museum of History. Tonight’s …

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 …