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TVD Friends, Wow, what a week. There has been all of what you’ve been reading in the news. And then behind the scenes The Village Doctor has continued to try and be there for you, communicating very regularly

Friends of TVD: VACCINE UPDATE. Please read carefully. As you can read in more detail below, The Village Doctor team has been working daily on preparing for, and keeping us all up to date on, the rollout of

  What a day for tears, for anger, and for celebration. January 6, 2021 will go down in the history books. Let me start with a shout out to a #legend: Stacey Abrams. Ms. Abrams, the former minority

  Wow! Happy New Year, TVD friends! Well, there can be no question that we are all (very) ready to put 2020 behind us. In the spirit of this, we are exploring a new section here in these

  Holiday greetings, TVD friends! Although it is difficult to get into the holiday spirit this week, it is more important than ever. COVID is surging, people are anxious, sheltering-in-place has taken on a new sense of urgency…

  December greetings, TVD friends, “Happy Holidays” feels a little early, but true nonetheless! And I want to emphasize the “Happy” as the holidays can be difficult time. If there was a time to “reach out and (not

  Friends of TVD, I hope you all had a wonderful, delicious, and socially distanced, Thanksgiving. As I reflect on this year, and its myriad challenges, I am still struck that I have much to be THANKFUL for,

    Happy and Grateful Thanksgiving, TVD friends, Selected thoughts, and wishes. for a healthy and happy day of thanks. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by

    Time to pass the gravy, stuffing, and perhaps some pumpkin pie. COVID-19 (pounds) here we come. But let me recommend that the people around your Thanksgiving table be only those currently inside your “quarantine bubble”. Much

    Hopeful (yet careful) greetings, TVD friends, Hopeful! Most of you have read about the preliminary report from Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, regarding their candidate COVID-19 vaccine. In a placebo-controlled trial involving 44,000 patients (so

    Peaceful electoral greetings, friends and patients of TVD! “As soon as a presidential winner is officially called (AP), we should take down any and all candidate signs from our yards and put out flags, large and

    Electoral greetings, friends, and patients of TVD! By the time you read next week’s newsletter, it will be November already, and what I might argue is the most consequential national election of our lifetimes will be

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?