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Walk to End Pancreatic Cancer

Once again, this June brings PanCAN’s annual “Walk to End Pancreatic Cancer”, and once again, I am proud to throw TVD’s support behind Cathy Quon, who has bravely and steadfastly supported PanCAN over these many years. Please help

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The Samburu Project Walk for Water

The Samburu Project is again coordinating a Walk for Water, and is supported by many members of our Woodside community including Bob and Martha Falkenberg and Matt and Doretta Bonner. Why help? Enable women in Africa to have

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May Day! May Day!

  It is that time again, and we hope you join us in celebration of Woodside’s 28th annual May Day Parade and Fun Run (and 15 years of The Village Doctor in Woodside!) Team TVD will again sponsor

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Tutto È Possibile (Anything Is Possible)

  Every now and then, we have an experience that feels so good we want to share. We had one recently between our medical assistant, Christie and one of our pediatric patients. This young man was understandably apprehensive

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The Benefits of Penicillin Allergy Testing

Hello from the 2019 American College of Physicians (ACP) Conference in Philadelphia! One of the many reasons I enjoy being a concierge physician at The Village Doctor is our emphasis on staying current on developments in internal medicine.

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Media, Screen Time and Young Minds

One of the more common concerns parents have in visits these days is that their child is spending too much time staring at the screen. The trouble is that in reality, we all probably do. In this media-saturated

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How do you see the world?

Cassie Schindler is a 40 (plus) -year practitioner of eastern meditation and a Certified Mindfulness Educator. A former 25-year Fortune 500 executive and healthy survivor of MS (multiple sclerosis), Cassie knows personally the toxic impact of chronic stress on the

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Return to Sender

A number of the holiday cards we mailed out have been returned due to a bad address, which reminds me to remind you to make sure we have your current address on file. You can confirm by calling,

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Community Stars

I am again delighted to share more world changing work by my friends, Tad and Dianne Taube. This month the El Camino Hospital Foundation announced that Tad and Dianne Taube and Mary and Doug Scrivner have committed $10

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