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Healthy greetings, friends and patients of TVD, Oh, the soap box beckons, but I must resist… but don’t you wish we had a national, cogent, and evidence-based plan for balancing the health and economic consequences of this pandemic?

Healthy greetings, friends and patients of TVD, Love living in “the valley”. See image above, of a billboard courtesy of Santa Clara County. 😀 Silicon Valley is the land of the entrepreneur, which leads me to give another

Healthy greetings, friends and patients of TVD, As you know, I try to keep this newsletter “topical”, and what could be more in the news than 1) flu season and the recommendation for getting your flu shot, and

“Winter is Coming”… OK, so this reference is a bit out of date, but the meme makes up for it. AND, due to COVID-19, getting a flu shot this year is more important than ever. The CDC estimates

Zoom-y greetings, Friends of TVD! HIPAA-compliant Zoom, that is. As most of you know, The Village Doctor has been “Zooming” you for Telehealth since the beginning of these Pandemic days. In March went the extra mile and worked

Rainy greetings, Friends of TVD, Rain has never been more welcome. In keeping with the metaphor of rain washing our air and surfaces clean of contaminants, let me share a vaccine success story from my friends at Stanford

Stay well, Friends of TVD, What a disquieting week, and what dystopian skies. A reinforcing message regarding the wisdom of masks? Read more about masks below, and for now join Team TVD in missing the typical blue skies

Healthy greetings Friends of TVD, “Public Service Announcement”. Two things, important to many in our TVD community. The first are two announcements from the hard working team at NARAL Pro-Choice America, commonly known as simply NARAL, whose 2.5

Be well, stay safe, TVD friends, For those of us living in California, much less the San Francisco peninsula, this has been a harrowing week of smoke and fire, of asthma flairs, evacuation alerts, and for some, the

What a crazy week, TVD friends, I hope that this newsletter finds you safe, and well. The Team at The Village Doctor is holding all of you affected by this week’s California wildfires close in our respective hearts.