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On April 3, 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” inside a jam-packed church in ...

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State Representatives are elected officials who are tasked with drafting legislation.  Very few of them have been trained in medicine ...

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...