Here it is: today’s paper.

And full of information it is. We have headline news: the debate over assisted suicide sparked by Brittany Maynard’s death in Oregon. And Westminster, Massachusetts, the town trying to ban all tobacco sales. What do you think? But that’s just Page One. Inside there are healthy recipes for things like brownies! And “Ask The Doctor,” Pharmacy 411, Bad Billy Laveau …

The latest, maybe the greatest

Is this the best Medical Examiner yet? That’s up to you, the reader, to individually decide. What could make this YPB (Your Personal Best)? Well, what if the cover story (ironically, the cover story is on page 6) convinced you to get diagnosed and treated for something that would otherwise kill you, or at least make your life miserable? That …

How did this happen???

The latest issue of the Medical Examiner, dated Friday, October 17, was posted Friday, October 17, on Facebook and on issuu.com (it’s always at issuu.com/medicalexaminer), bit for some reason not here at the Medical Examiner blog. It was probably all the excitement surrounding our Bicentennial (200th) Issue. Let us herewith rectify that oversight immediately.

Pet Therapy

Saturday is always a good day for Pet Therapy. That’s why we do it. And you can always click the link at the bottom of this post to go directly to the Pet Vet feature in this week’s Augusta Medical Examiner. In the meantime: http://issuu.com/medicalexaminer/docs/oct17.14/c/slzc8dz Need quality boarding or daycare for your favorite dog? Cats & Dogs is sponsored by …

POP QUIZ

This issue, as always, offers a veritable plethora of good reading on virtually every page. The cover story, however, features an interesting pop quiz. See if you can correctly answer the question and win the prize offered before going on to the rest of this award-wanting issue.

The HOTTEST issue yet!

…containing the latest installment in our view of The National Hot Car Witchhunt. There is a time and a place to call 9-1-1 when you see a child left alone in a car. But is that time and place when the parent is gone for less than five minutes? How about a little application of The Golden Rule before you …

The Helicopter Issue drops

Not literally, silly. I don’t need the NTSB on my case. But the cover story today is about a disturbing trend: jailing moms (and sometimes dads) for leaving their kids unattended for five minutes. You know, the kind of things our parents used to do to us for five hours. Mothers are being hauled off to jail; kids are being …

Extra! Extra!

Here it is, today’s Medical Examiner. It features a lot in just 16 pages: the usual faves like the world’s only Augusta-based crossword puzzle with clues only locals will get and a semi-wicked Sudoku and two other word puzzles (for brain health). Then you’ve got your Pharmacy 411, a delicious AND healthful recipe (for popsicles) as well as all the …