If we take the last year–from last July to the end of June this year, say, as in a fiscal year–I’d have to acknowledge that the ledger is lavishly splashed with red. The blood-red of injury, of loss, and the blood, sweat and tears of emergency. “How do I love thee? [This past year] Let […]
The issue of whether to recall Dr. Parmod Kumar gets muddied by people who want him to remain on the hospital board. These folks, while well-intentioned, are blinded by the rhetoric from Dr. Kumar. Parmod Kumar is not the savior of the world or the only one who can save us. In fact, at this […]
HCCA/Tulare Regional Medical Center does not agree with the survey report that has garnered the majority of the real estate in today’s Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register. However, the hospital did offer a plan of correction to that report because it is always seeking to improve its procedures and practices and that plan has been fully accepted […]
We have to be frank here. The questions you have asked center around the latest episode of the vicious attempts by a few disgruntled doctors set to vilify and destroy Tulare’s hospital. The problems with the medical staff started many years ago, way before HCCA or the current Board were in place. There was no […]
This letter is to notify Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register that I deny the statement in the ‘teaser’ video (posted online on June 15, 2017) regarding a CDPH report, because it was taken out of context and inaccurately portrayed. Specifically, the inaccurately displayed and pulled out of context statement reads, “The Operating Room Director had stated for […]
Three months after Al’s loss the prevailing mood remains bleak. While we “celebrated” the Kid’s graduation, things like birthdays and holidays are as dog meat–served cold, and with the fur still attached. Nobody in this squad is much in the mood for festivities of any description. And then–with Teddy visiting for the graduation–the black topic […]
One thing the Chief and I have learned over the last few years is this legal gem: If you are the Defendant in a civil lawsuit the Plaintiff can play merry hell with your life. If you’re not overly concerned with the trial’s outcome–because, let’s face it: as the Plaintiff you can drop the proceedings […]
We came home from the wars–that is to say Cabo San Lucas–in 1999, after a sojourn there of five years. But in Lemon Cove, where we landed, my battles with Nature continued. You might even say the front expanded–to 96 acres. We moved in to an ancient, tatterdemalion farm house in a citrus grove owned […]
Actually, I encountered the Creature alone. I used “we” in the header as I’m bringing everyone who reads this into the mystery. No one else in the family ever saw it, and they all doubted my sanity first for a lack of evidence and, second, because I could only ever describe it as a creature. […]
In honor of Cesar Chavez’s birthday, the Coalition Advocating for Pesticide Safety (CAPS) held a press conference in Visalia regarding banning chlorpyrifos. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed a ban on a pesticide linked to nervous system damage in children. Farmers are now allowed to use chlorpurifos which is sprayed on more than a dozen […]