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I serve as Chief Medical Officer of Partnership Health Center, a non-profit, Community Health Center and division of Missoula County. In my 20-plus years of practicing as a family medicine physician, many patients and friends have asked me how I arrive at specific health recommendations for my patients.

The white-hot battle over Texas’s new law restricting abortion generally is not seen as including First Amendment concerns — but it does and should.

Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed like something the West experienced more than anywhere else.

Nationally, big fires were treated as another freak of Western violence, like a grizzly bear attack, or another California quirk like Esalen and avocados.

Now the wildland fires flare up everywhere. There are fires in Algeria and Turkey, Amazonia and Indonesia and France, Canada and Australia. Last year, even Greenland burned.

September 11, 2001 was one of those infamous. Much like November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Most Americans alive in 1963 can remember the exact moment they heard that JFK had been shot. It is seared into their memories. So, too, with 9/11. We mostly saw it rather than heard it, but, people in America who saw the wreckage will likely never forget those images.