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  • Physician-assisted suicide would corrupt the profession

    Carley C. Robertson|Updated Feb 21, 2014
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    I am a general medical practitioner, with 30 years experience in north-central Montana, and have lived in this community for more than 20 years. Montanans Against Assisted Suicide has decided to appeal its case with the Montana Medical Examiner Board to the Montana Supreme Court, and I am glad to see it (online at http://www.kxlh.com/news/kxlh-evening-top-news-wed-feb-21). My hope is that the appeal will end the controversy about assisted suicide possibly being legal in Montana. My concerns about legalizing assisted suicide...

  • Don't get your flu shot too early

    Carley C. Robertson|Updated Oct 4, 2013

    Did you know you can get a flu shot too early? The present scramble to get flu shots early concerns me. I am afraid that this rush is based on financial gain to those giving the immunizations, particularly chain pharmacies, and not actual facts of influenza in Montana ... or is based on recommendations that apply to the East Coast but not the West in general, and certainly not Montana. More than 75 percent of the population of the United States lives within 200 miles of the east coast; national recommendations for early...