And it’s a doozie! (Or do you say doozy?) Looking for home-grown natural foods at markets, restaurants and farmstands? Kim Beavers (of WRDW’s “Eating Well with Kim” fame) dishes on all the best spots. And what about local/home-grown versus organic? She’ll fill you in there too. Also in this issue, a quite memorable Medicine in the First Person. We’ll call …
Ah…perfection!
Ah yes, the digital edition, always a perfect print job. In this sterling issue, The Money Doctor offers rock-solid money advice for everyman, not just the guy with $100,000 to invest. WORD FIND: Look for these words on the following pages: “GOT HEP C?” If you do, a cure has been found. Read all about it. The blog spot has …
Do not adjust your screen
You wouldn’t want to do that, because what we have here is (not) a failure to communicate. Instead, this issue contains a ton — well, to get technical it’s only about eighteen hundred pounds — of useful information that will encourage you to be a healthier person and live weller longer. Haven’t you always wanted to live weller? Of course …
Hot off the presses!
It’s today’s red-hot Medical Examiner, chock full of salubrious information to make this sweet life even sweeter. Just to whet your appetite: • almost enough information to qualify you to perform open heart-surgery • sweet news about chocolate and heart health • a book review of great ideas for intelligent tattoos, if you’re into that sort of thing and want some …
Hear that barking?
No, Timmy has not fallen in the well, silly. It’s Lassie bringing in today’s paper! Just wipe off that doggie spit and read the shocking stats about education and its lifelong impact on health. You want more shocking? Read the latest update on the silky-smooth rollout of Obamacare. You want more shocking than that? Read the headline on page 6 …
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 …
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!
Today’s Medical Examiner
Take a look at this cover illustration. Do you think the topic is: A.) Children playing outside B.) When butterflies attack If you said B, please seek professional help. Otherwise, beginning reading now.
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
Here you go, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! It’s today’s fresh, crisp Medical Examiner. And it’s even crisper than the print version. “Why?” you, the reader, ask. Because we usually spot any number of pesky typos after we send it to the printer. That means the digital version is what we call “typo lite.” (FDA approval pending) So crack …