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 …
It’s not brain surgery
Of course, people who don’t have a medical message still like the Medical Examiner, and why shouldn’t they? • low ad rates • two crisp new issues each month • 30,000 loyal monthly readers • interactive (clickable) ads in the online Examiner • highly visible, area-wide distribution If you’re interested in advertising in the Medical Examiner, call publisher Dan Pearson …
DWIGHT SAYS COME ON BACK!
We recently received official permission to replace the Medical Examiner newsstand taken from the lobby of Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Ft. Gordon. Look for it on your left behind Starbucks as you enter the main hospital entrance. Thanks, Mr. President!
Pop Culture and the Medical Examiner
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Fire up the iPad!
It’s the latest Medical Examiner full of, well, if not chocolatey goodness, at least a lot of tasty articles that encourage and promote health and wellness. And we’re not suggesting you live on celery, either. No, we even have a feature article about the benefits of snacks. So go ye forth and read, cover to cover. Just click on the …
The PSA of the Week
My, how times have changed. Then again, in other ways they haven’t changed at all. As corny as the presentation may be, the message still rings true. Produced by Yale University in 1957. Note: The soundtrack is available on 78 rpm records. (What are records? Ask your grandparents.)
Unfortunate, indeed
It seems that in nearly every issue of the Medical Examiner, typos rear their ugly heads, try as we might to avoid them. Typos – or as we like to call them, tpyos – are the bane of every publication whether the Medical Examiner or the Wall Street Journal. And I’ve seen typos in novels and non-fiction books plenty of …
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!
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 – …
Thank you, Glynn Moore
…and Georgia Rep. Bill Hitchens. Why? For bringing attention to a pernicious plague upon our society: slow and/or habitual left lane drivers. Glynn Moore’s Augusta Chronicle column today is about this topic, and Rep. Hitchens’ proposed House Bill 459 to make it illegal to drive in the left lane except for overtaking and passing another vehicle or turning left. Law …