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We can choose our physician, why not our health officer?

| October 20, 2020 7:00 AM

To the editor:

A family story: My grandmother once explained to a neighbor why she could not help her get well, having been threatened by the town doctor to stop practicing medicine and warned to leave town or go to jail after a patient refused to buy his snake oil. Word spread faster than a fear agenda virus and the doctor left town as his traffic could not keep the dust blown off his shingle. In Lincoln County, such incompetence is rewarded with a government job with Gestapo levels of authority...

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