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A Celebration of Services: Dr. Roland Sharp

HE WAS BORN in 1907 in the same small log home in which his father was born deep in the hills of Pocahontas County. He still remembers the first time he tasted his first sip of “real soda pop,” how he felt when he delivered the first of more than 2,000 babies and the grief he felt when his son died. Dr. Roland Sharp is well-known across the Mountain State for his work as a physician and as the first president at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg. He has spent more than half a century working on the advice of his father who told him, “Do something you like and always do something for someone else.”

Economic Rescue or Financial Ruin?

IN RECENT MONTHS the nation has suffered from an acute economic slump. As events began to unfold, the Bush Administration pushed through massive bailouts in an attempt to bolster the collapsing financial sector. However, markets did not react positively. As the crisis continues to spread under President Obama’s direction, the federal government seems poised to increase its efforts to prevent further woes to an ailing economy. The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” a roughly $800 billion behemoth, has become the answer hoped to address the dire situation facing the nation. Unfortunately, based on simple economic and historical evidence, this bailout will in all likelihood fail to stimulate a recovery.

Footprints to the Future

IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM at Charleston Area Medical Center’s General Hospital, a young man by the name of Tony Skeens who has his whole life ahead of him is asked to sign a paper giving consent for an orthopedic surgeon to amputate his left leg below the knee. It is 1974 and he has just been in a motorcycle accident that will change the course of his life. Although the surgeons question if the limb is salvageable, Dr. Luis Loimil decides to give saving it a try. Over the next 10 years, Skeens will undergo 12 operations and a severe bone infection that will result in a left leg that is five centimeters shorter than the right leg, malaligned and producing arthritis in his ankle, knee and spine. Over time he develops back pain to the point where he can no longer work and he requires constant pain medication. Like many orthopedic patients in similar situations, he has been told that nothing can be done and he will have to live with it.

Health Care in West Virginia

THE WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE will be challenged to design a health care delivery model to meet the needs of the 21st Century by providing quality, accessible and affordable health care in both the private and public health care delivery sectors. In light of the fact that our state ranks first in overall disability rate, hypertension and the rate of cancer-related deaths from colorectal cancer, ranks third in obesity and has an aging population, the legislature is working hard during the interim period to address these issues in preparation for the 2009 session.

Opposites Attract

THE YIN YANG is a universal symbol of balance. The black and white design represents opposing forces struggling against each other to create a sense of balance and necessary continuity like summer’s warmth to winter’s chill, and yet both sides of the whole are rooted together, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Both the yin and the yang of a whole influence change on its opposite, maintaining balance in a constantly evolving environment.

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