The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Good: We are now more than a week into the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver! So far, Team USA has done well with great performances from skier Lindsey Vonn, snowboarder Shaun White (what a performance!!), and ice-skating sensation Evan Lysacek. It’s a nice interlude and refresher from the political theater of Washington, DC.

The Bad:  Read my Indicium Brevis VII in this Report.  As a former smoker, (I quit on Dec. 17, 1981 at 11:32 pm – a time and date I will remember forever) I’m a bit passionate about smoking, and the rates are going up in this country for the first time in more than 30 years.  It’s going in the wrong direction!! 

The Ugly:  Last week, Afghani, American, and Coalition Forces began waging a fierce battle in the town of Marja, one of the last Taliban strongholds.  In the war in Afghanistan, the Battle of Marja is an illustration that this war is far from over…

Kevin Fickenscher, MD

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