November 2008 - Posts

Who Has Healthcare Veto Power?
November 11, 2008 1:29 PM by Tony DeWitt

Recently I was in Killington, Vermont doing a presentation. An attendee asked me about this situation: A patient in our facility came in and signed an advanced directive where he did not want to be on a ventilator and did not want to be kept alive by Read More...

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A Marvel of Democracy
November 5, 2008 1:56 PM by Tony DeWitt

Yesterday I participated as a poll watcher at a Missouri polling place. I had the opportunity to see both the best and worst of America in one day. The Best At 6:00 a.m. before the polls were even open, scores of people were lined up to cast their vote. Read More...

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Go Vote!
November 4, 2008 1:25 PM by Tony DeWitt

On December 17, 1944, near the town of Bastogne, France, a young man named Victor Gower, a staff-sergeant in the United States Army from a small town in Missouri, died in what historians have come to call the Battle of the Bulge. He was one of 19,000 Read More...

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