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Letter: Women here can’t find oncologists to treat them

Columns

When diagnosed with breast cancer last year, my PCP said women don’t die from this like they used to. Hope this is going to be the truth not only for myself, but for other women on Lanai and Maui who can’t get an oncologist to take them on. Why is this happening? A Maui oncology practice shut down overnight with an email on a Friday 5 p.m. Patients now left to find aa replacement oncologist to pick them up is not turning out so well. I personally called Queens, Straub and Kapiolani on Oahu after my PCP sent referrals, only to be told they are not accepting Lanai patients and to ...

Letter: Spend your movie budget anywhere else

Letters to the Editor

Barry Wurst’s review of Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” takes readers on a condescending, roundabout journey through film school academia rather than getting to the meat of the matter. We don’t need a lecture on the Spielberg canon. It would have sufficed to say the movie is wet dog. In today's grueling, “get-it-done-yesterday” world, filmgoers just want to know if a movie is worth their hard-earned dollars as an escape from the daily grind. “Disclosure Day” is so topsy-turvy and void of believability that it’s mind-boggling to discuss it in the context of ...

Letter: Neighbor Island healthcare crisis demands action

Letters to the Editor

My grandmother flew from Maui to Oahu sick and scared, paying the price for a procedure that went wrong. An understaffed and under-resourced system had failed her. One that lacked the specialists and expertise to make it right. She recovered, and our family is grateful. But I keep thinking about all the people who don't have this same outcome. This is the reality for too many neighbor island residents living under a healthcare system stretched too thin. Doctors are leaving the state, and a bill that would have raised insurance reimbursements to retain primary care physicians on ...

Dr. Jessica A. Johnson: Trusting God in a time like this

Columns

As I have begun my summer three-mile power-walking workouts on a commercial street in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, where I pass a Waffle House and a Tim Hortons, I noticed two large billboard signs taking aim at President Donald Trump and the economy. Both signs depict Trump in a petulant manner, with ...

Georgia Garvey: General time is undefeated in battle

Columns

I am on a mudslide toward death. Well, we all are, really, when you think about it, but sometimes it just seems you're slipping down the side of the mountain faster than at other times. Like, for example, when you're approaching a birthday that starts with a "fif" and ends with crying in the ...