Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Ten years ago on these pages, I regaled my readers with stories of my heart attack. It was an exciting misadventure. Nobody in my family had...

A question for my writer friends: Do odd things happen to you, or are you the odd thing? The answer is important. The world is odd, fil...

What action verb best describes a heart attack? Most times, the past tense of have serves the purpose. Dad had a heart attack. That's...

Wyomingites call John Barrasso a U.S. Senator. Before turning to politics, he was Dr. John Barrasso in Casper. An orthopedic surgeon, l...

Funny how surgery can throw you for a loop. Fifteen days ago, I had a knee replaced. Pulled the 1950 chassis into the OR, went to sleep an...

Wear Red Day for heart health.  A new study shows that many people would prefer to die sooner than take a daily pill. From the Atlantic...

Sen./Dr. John Barrasso, Sen. Mike Enzi and Rep./Gazillionaire Cynthia Lummis don't have to depend on the Cheyenne Health and Wellness Ce...

Something weird happens to physicians when they're elected to the U.S. Senate. Especially Republican physicians. I thought Sen. Barrasso...

From an AP story (via Billings Gazette ): The Wyoming Department of Health reports that the number of Wyoming adults with diabetes more than...

Several Sundays ago, local right-winger Richard Wall surprised me with some common sense in a Wyoming Tribune-Eagle guest column. He urged ...

Quote from "Wyoming on the Block" by Ben Cannon in the Dec. 22 Planet Jackson Hole : Dr. Brent Blue, a Teton District Board of Hea...

Here's the good news: Wyoming granted a record number of medical licences in 2009... And now, of course, the bad news ...but fewer newly...