CEO Blog June 2021
I hope you have that place in you. Hidden, even from you, intuition springing from values, incubation growing into illumination –...
COVID-19 VACCINATION UNDER EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION: IMPORTANCE OF INFORMED CONSENT (Rev.8/29/21)
COVID-19 VACCINATION INFORMED CONSENT FORM A foundational principal for the ethical practice of medicine in America is informed consent....
Scientific Censorship
On March 18, the governor of Florida held a round table discussion with the physicians and scientists who supported a focused protection...
Informed Consent: Still Relevant during a Pandemic
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting...
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC)
What is a LARC? LARC stands for Long-Acting Reversible Contraception. These are forms of birth control that are very effective and can...
3/2/2021 Season of Discontent
Human beings, unlike animals, seem capable of suffering amid abundance. If animals are given food, warmth, shelter, and care, they seem...
Bacterial Vaginosis: The Most Common Vaginal Infection
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common condition of the vagina. There are some things that may put you at increased risk.
2/18/2021 Editorial about old church and purpose
There is a beautiful stately old church in downtown Portland. Built in 1894, it is multiple stories tall, when that part of Portland was...
1/25/2021 How Our Character Is Revealed
The Covid 19 pandemic has presented challenges on multiple levels to Evergreen staff. Some of this reflects the virus and much results...
1/19/2021 Learning to Divide
I learned about division in school. His name was Mike. Like everyone else, I could tell Mike was different. Mike could too. The term used...
Christmas Letter 2020
We can ignore even pleasure, But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, But shouts in our pains. It is...
Vaccines in Pregnancy (and Beyond)
Vaccines in Pregnancy and beyond. We will help you understand the truth about risks and benefits of things that seem scary and unknown.
1/5/2021 Contact Tracing and Assigning Blame
The 1970 film, M*A*S*H, includes a scene where Major Frank Burns, a pious surgeon, angrily blames an orderly for the death of one of his...
Is it Time to Have a Baby?
If you are ready to have a baby or even just beginning to think about it, one of the first steps you should take is to make an appointment.
10/26/2020 COVID INFECTION FATALITY RATES
The Infection fatality rate (IFR) has been debated since the beginning of the pandemic. This number represents the percentage of people...
10/11/2020 To Public Health Officials: Focused Protection is Following the Science
Academia has finally arrived and found the courage to remind public health policymakers of fundamental principles essential to protecting...
10/1/2020 Job Syndrome
It’s not complacency: It’s a virus Let’s call it the “Job syndrome”. Recall the biblical story in the Old Testament about a righteous man...
To Screen or Not To Screen, That is Thy Question.
We are here to give you the facts so that you can make the right decision for your pregnancy – for genetic screening and beyond!
8/27/2020 COVID Modeling and Graph Mishaps
As a hospitalist, I have been interested in the CDC’s Covid-19 forecasts for hospitalizations. There are multiple entities that provide...
8/23/2020 COVID-19
8/23/20 "People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right...