Today is known as Doctor Appreciation Day in Peterborough. Because it is so difficult to get docs to come to smaller cities and towns, Peterborough has a person who gets paid a handsome salary to recruit doctors for this area. One of his ideas to keep doctors here (I guess this is the purpose) is [...]

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I am not going to write about the tremendous devastation left behind as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Nor am I going to write about the massive numbers of victims involved in this horrible tragedy. I am sure almost everyone has been watching the television frequently in order to keep updated on the situation. There [...]

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I have read the news item on the first Vioxx trial a few times now and I am still sitting here with my eyers bugging out. A jury has awarded a widow $253.4 MILLION in damages - her 59 year old husband died of a heart attack after taking the pain killer Vioxx for a [...]

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I often read the letters to the Editor in our local newspaper. Some of them really leave me shaking my head. One of those letters was in last evening’s paper - it was titled: “Summer Serenity Lost”. I won’t quote the entire article but I will pick out some of the points that the writer [...]

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