The announcement that Dr. Susan Turner, the Kitsap Public Health District Health Officer, plans to retire next July was met with littl...

No one wants to make mistakes.   It is a humbling experience.   It is healing to admit it.   It was brought to my attention by a pat...

Last spring, 2-year-old girl ran into a sliding glass door at daycare and sliced her forehead. The cut was deep, nearly reaching the s...

Norman Rockwell vs. Walgreens Definition of the Physician-Patient Relationship When I describe it, many of you will instantly recall t...

Last week, investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, one of a group of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for prompting a cultural recko...

This past summer, I volunteered in Tijuana, Mexico at a clinic serving patients in the Migrant Protection Protocol program, or MPP....

This past week CHI Franciscan broke ground on what will be a 26,000 square foot outpatient clinic at 4207 Kitsap Way in West Bremer...

Last week, Peninsula Community Health Clinic announced an agreement with the Central Kitsap and Bremerton School Districts to open scho...

Does the vaccine debate have to be polarized according to “Pro-Vaxx” or “Anti-Vaxx” camps?  Is it possible to have a reasonable discussio...

Gun violence has become a public health epidemic.   Despite countless deaths in mass shootings over the last 2 decades, the Dickey Ame...

A man convicted of procuring a girl under the age of 18 for prostitution should not get away with serving only 13 months in prison.   ...