With tears in his eyes and a quiver in his voice, the 82-year-old gentleman looked at me and asked, “Do you think I will go to heaven?” The question kind of took me back. This was not a question from one of my Hospice patients, but of a long-time friend and member of my Church. I have known Travis f...

My Friend is 65; shouldn’t she be exempt from Medicare payroll taxes? Dear Rusty: My girlfriend is 65 and she just enrolled in Medicare. She is still working full time as a nurse, but they are still deducting Medicare taxes from her paycheck. I thought as soon as you started Medicare, that they woul...

The U.S. Supreme Court has again rebuked the state of Colorado for its censorship and suppression, this time in the field of health care counseling. How so? Kaley Chiles, a licensed, faith-based counselor in Colorado Springs, challenged the state’s 2019 law on talk therapy for minors. Miss Chiles ar...

I write this as we enter Holy Week. Good Friday is on the horizon and the Resurrection, the most profound gift in human history, follows three days la...

Bouncing back from weeks of being sick is not as easy as it used to be when I was younger. I guess that’s the cost of getting old. Over the last six w...

When I was small, I always heard “April showers bring May flowers.” This year it has been February showers has brought March flowers. The truth is we ...