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Letter to Editor | A UW Clinic Accessible to All
-- from Bob Waunch -- Merchants, tradesmen, teachers, students, parents, real estate agents, restaurant staff, business owners, lawyers, contractors, heavy-equipment operators, arborists, consultants, retirees: All of us are likely to have medical issues at some
Guest Opinion | UWNC and Orcas Island Healthcare
-- from Dick and BJ Arnold, Carol Boring, Dale Heisinger, JoEllen Moldoff, Patsy and Stu Stephens (reprinted from Dec. 22) -- In our opinion piece published the week of December 11, we expressed our desire to
Letter to Editor | Message to Bob Vietzke’s Orcas Family
-- from Lisa Karstetter -- We have safely made it back to the East side of the state, but not before leaving a small piece of each of our hearts on Orcas. Uncle Bob was
Letter to Editor | Thank You to County
-- from Pamela Doerr -- On behalf of the residents of the Longhouse and our local businesses, including Islander's Bank located within the vicinity of the corners of Prune Alley and Fern Streets I want
Letter to Editor | Fund the Gap
-- from Velma Doty -- To Those Who Care: I want send a message about the current and past medical issues. Times have changed since a group of islanders gathered together and formed the Medical
Letter to Editor | Beyond “General Hospital”
-- from Donna and Michael Riordan -- Having lived on Orcas for six years, we are moderate users of medical services here. The recent medical-care drama, with frequent sniping back and forth over old history and
Letter to Editor | It’s Now or Never, Orcas
-- from the Orcas Medical Foundation Board -- If we continue to quarrel about the past and present, we may find that we have lost the future. The proposal to establish a University of Washington
Letter to Editor | Blood Drive Set Records
-- from Leif -- Dear Orcas, this last Blood Drive, Thursday, December 15 set records. We had 92 donors, a record especially for this time of year! Some were Orcas High students, returning donors that haven’t
Guest Opinion | Viability of Medical Practices on Orcas Island
-- from Paul Kamin -- Dr. Russell and Dr. Shinstrom have both been part of Orcas Medical Center, and subsequently chosen to practice medicine separate from the Orcas Medical Foundation. Both have been operating their
Guest Opinion | Medical Future on Orcas Island
-- from Tony Giefer, M.D. -- Much of what has been written or placed online recently about the medical issues facing Orcas Island has been misinformed or plainly false. As Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said
Guest Opinion | OMF/UW Medicine Q&A (Part 2)
– from Orcas Medical Foundation (OMF) – This is the second in a series of answers to frequently asked questions about the OMF/UW Medicine plan to have a UW Neighborhood Clinic on Orcas Island. The
Health Care on Orcas: A Call to Action
-- from Adaline Adams, BJ Arnold, Dick Arnold, Carol Boring, Dale Heisinger, JoEllen Moldoff, Patsy Stephens, Stu Stephens -- A small group met to consider the question: How can the health needs of Orcas Island best
Letter to Editor | Examining the Background to Current Medical Quandary
-- from David Shinstrom, M.D. -- I would like to take this opportunity to respond to several requests I have received to present the history of my time here on Orcas and how we have
Guest Opinion: Orcas Medical Center Questions & Answers
-– from the Orcas Medical Foundation (OMF) –- (Updated Dec. 5, 2016) (This is the first in a series of answers to frequently asked questions about the OMF/UW Medicine plan to have a UW Neighborhood
Letter to Editor | Consider a Gift to Orcas
-- from Bob & Marsha Waunch -- Let’s all consider giving a gift to ourselves and the entire island this holiday season – the gift of long-term assurance of quality health care. The campaign to
