The doctor walks into an examining room to meet a new patient: A big, roundish guy with billowing white whiskers, rosy cheeks and an infectiously jolly manner, dressed in “all red, and wearing a strange hat.”
It is apparent the jolly old soul is woefully out of shape.
We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.
“A little help here… anybody,” I muttered with a loaded bar on my chest that I thought I could lift but really couldn’t. Had I used the Smith machine on days I was lifting solo, I wouldn’t have worried because the machine is the spotter.
Quality Care IPA, a new local independent physicians association, will offer its services in the Las Vegas Valley beginning in January.
Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang, the first medical director of the Nevada Cancer Institute, will never forget how his association with the nonprofit medical center began.
