http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE So impressed are they with their greatness, and so overwhelmed with their popularity and burgeoning patient rolls and fees that doctors have forgotten or prefer not to acknowledge that the waiting elderly cherish time. Because for those of us with only five or ten yea...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Archive/Blog~498956.aspx7/23/2008 9:04:32 AMDavid Alter It was the cat's meow that drove me to a prestigious Boulder County Hospital's emergency room onesummer day. The cat's meowing tones flowed across the grass to my lawn chair and it was more than any man could bear. So hand outstretched I, "Here Kitty, Here Kittyed" him out of the brush wit...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Archive/Blog~498412.aspx7/22/2008 8:11:08 AMDavid Alter It's high time we took a hard look at Longmont's Good Ol' Boy's Medical Pulmonolgist Club where you better behave, patient, or be banned from the doctor's door. Never mind, doctor, that you took the oath of Hippocrates to "do no harm." Never mind, O medical specialist, that the patient needed m...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Archive/Blog~495053.aspx7/12/2008 1:07:50 PMDavid Alter Clinton, Obama, Biden, Edwards, Dodd, Gravel and Richardson didn't ask or I would have told them about Mrs. Elizabeth Bassett, the lady teacher who opened the book of learning for us back in the 20s and 30s. She taught reading, writing and arithmetic from the McGuffey's Readers and a caring hear...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Archive/Blog~338936.aspx7/24/2007 10:06:58 PMDavid Alter From Alter's Speakeasy Once and for all, let's clear the air and put to rest the saga of the man who came to town on a pony. His name (allegedly) was Yankee Doodle. And he surfaced back in the 1700s, a time when the Dutch were exploring upstate New York and revolutionary thinkers were ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Writing/Blog~335256.aspx7/16/2007 1:29:56 PMDavid Alter From Alter's Speakeasy Once and for all, let's clear the air and put to rest the saga of the man who came to town on a pony. His name (allegedly) was Yankee Doodle. And he surfaced back in the 1700s, a time when the Dutch were exploring upstate New York and revolutionary thinkers were...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Writing/Blog~335209.aspx7/16/2007 12:45:35 PMDavid Alter Wouln't you know that the Chinese fortune cookie blew It. The day was promising to be a disaster from its start at sunup to the cracking open of my Chinese fortune cookie: The clocks had gone dead, newspapers delivered to a neighbor's house, a drunk mistook my door for his slot on skid row, I b...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Archive/Blog~328987.aspx7/1/2007 11:33:27 AMDavid Alter