Feature Articles
JULY 17, 2013
The smallest gestures have the biggest meaning
Carrie Singer, founder of Animal Guardian Network, recently received an email plea about a woman with a 12 year-old pitbull named Kiwi. Everyday she would take Kiwi up the street to the grassy park.
BY CLIFF FAVER, DVM | JULY 17, 2013
Bufo Toads
This is one of the desert dwellers that most people who move here don’t know about. It is one of the greater concerns for our pets. This is the time of year that we see the Bufo come out of the mud during monsoon season.
SPOOF SPACE BY STEELE CODDINGTON | JULY 17, 2013
Veritas ..."and the truth shall set you free"
Veritas! A word that used to define presidential character. Truth? Where has it gone? It's flown the coop. Abandoned by the highest official in the land. The old truism, "When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window," has been reinvented to describe the White House: "When Chicago comes in the door, truth flies out the window." It began flying out when an army of left wing Pinocchios marched in with their flock of pigeons. Guano became their major export. What can we do? Wake up! Recognize that Paul Revere's call to arms, "The British are coming," has morphed into a new warning, "Your government is coming – for you, your money, your job, your privacy, your health care, your freedom."
DR. DAVE HEPBURN | JULY 17, 2013
Weighing the risk benefit ratio some would stop breathing!
The 'Nocebo' Effect: If You Think You'll Get Sick, You Will Study author suggests doctors give patients less info on potential drug side effects, but is that ethical? I tell you why. I encourage my patients to NOT read the S/E profile that some pharmacists delight in giving. The number of patients I have seen who have come back with a significant worsening of their condition because they read about a S/ E and it scared them.
