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TIDBITS® INHALES ATMOSPHERE
by Janet Spencer Come along with Tidbits as we consider the atmosphere! ATMOSPHERE FACTS • The word “atmosphere” comes from the Greek words “atmos” meaning “vapor” and “sphaira” meaning “sphere.” • 50% of the atmospheric pressure is found in the first 4 miles (6 km) above ground. 99% of the pressure is in the first 60 miles (100 km). Anyone crossing this range is an astronaut. • 21% of air is oxygen. Half comes from plants and half from microbes. Without oxygen, animals cannot exist. Humans cannot function in an environment with less than 17% oxygen. • 1% of air is made up of argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, xenon, ozone, iodine, carbon monoxide, and ammonia. • The earth’s air weighs about 500 trillion tons. The atmosphere is so spread out that we barely notice it, yet its weight is equal to a layer of water more than 34 feet (10 m) deep covering the entire planet. The weight of it drives nitrogen and oxygen into the soil and water. (cont)
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ATMOSPHEREIC LAYERS • The atmosphere is divided into five layers, and those layers are split into further layers. • The main layer closest to the ground is called the troposphere, from the Greek “tropos” meaning “turning” denoting how turbulent it is. The troposphere extends for ten miles (16 km) above Earth. 80% of the atmosphere is composed of the troposphere. This layer is the warmest and densest. Almost all of the Earth’s weather takes place in this layer. The higher you go, the lower the temperature. The temperature drops 3.3°F for every 1,000 feet up you go in elevation (6°C per 1,000 m). • At the very top of the troposphere there’s a layer of air that moves very quickly with little turbulence. It’s called the jet stream, and this is where planes fly. The air is thin here so there’s less resistance, and there is no weather here and no clouds. The planes get a boost from the winds that blow reliably in a single direction. • Above the troposphere is the stratosphere, from the Greek “strato” meaning “level” or “layer.” It extends about 30 miles (48 km) up. The ozone layer is located in the stratosphere. The word “ozone” comes from the Greek “ozein” meaning “to smell” because of ozone’s pungent odor. Ozone is a gas that acts like a shield against excessive ultraviolet light coming from the Sun. • Above the stratosphere is the mesosphere, from the Greek word meaning “middle.” It extends 50 miles (80 km) high. This layer has the coldest temperatures, dipping as low as -184°F (-120° C). This is the layer where meteors flame out before reaching the surface of the Earth. It’s the least-understood part of the atmosphere because it’s too high for aircraft and weather balloons, but too low for spacecraft. The only way to reach it is sounding rockets which collect data during sub-orbital flights. (cont)
• Someone late for dinner? To keep potatoes warm without drying them out (as would happen in an oven), set their serving dish in a larger pan of hot water and cover. • “I use a small plastic bowl as a scoop in my big bag of potting mix. It’s a good amount to pot a small plant, and I can hold my pot over the bowl to save the soil.” -- R.F. in Oregon • Give your buttons a boost! Use clear nail polish to strengthen the strings holding your buttons in place. Just a drop on the face of each button, and let dry. You’ll never know it’s there, but it definitely helps. • “Remember this old trick when camping: Use salt to keep ice cold and slow the melt. In fact, I salt the ice in the cooler whenever we use it, camping or not!” -- G.L. in South Carolina • Challenge your school-age kids or grandkids to a “word scavenger hunt” in the daily newspaper. You can have them search for words relating to a particular subject, or have a contest to see who can find the most unusual or complex words. It gets them reading and looking! Preschool-age kids can use a magazine to do a scavenger hunt for certain items, like colors, animals, kitchen items, etc. • Mark a reusable water bottle with time measurements so you’ll know if you are drinking enough during the day. Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #27 June 29th 2020 ATMOSPHEREIC LAYERS (cont) • The ionosphere is at the top of the mesosphere. The word “ion” comes from the Greek word meaning “to go” because they always move towards an opposite electrical charge. This is where the auroras occur, lit up when streams of ions flow in from the Sun. • Radio waves bounce off the ionosphere. The ionosphere is broken down into several layers, which vary according to the season, latitude, and time of day. At night, the bottom two layers of the ionosphere disappear. This makes it easier for radio waves to be carried long distances, explaining why you can often hear AM radio stations from hundreds of miles away at night but not during the day. • Above the mesosphere is the thermosphere, named for the Greek word for heat. It extends 500 miles (800 km) high. This is the thickest layer in the atmosphere, but only the lightest gases—mostly oxygen, helium, and hydrogen—are found here. Temperatures can rise to 2,732° F (1,500°C). Though the temperature is very high, there is not much heat. Heat is created when molecules get excited and transfer energy from one molecule to another. Since there is very little pressure in the thermosphere, there is little heat transfer. If you were in the thermosphere unprotected by a space suit, your blood would boil while your hand felt no heat at all. • The Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station (ISS) orbit the Earth in the thermosphere. Satellites that operate here are in “low-Earth orbit.” • The top layer of the atmosphere is the exosphere, from the Greek word meaning “outside” or “beyond.” If you were to get into your space car and drive from sea level to the bottom of the exosphere, the trip of 300 miles (482 km) would be about the same as driving from Philadelphia to Boston. The exosphere is about 6,200 miles (10,000 km) thick which is almost as wide as Earth itself. (cont)
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® of Idaho TIDBITS of Kootenai Issue #27 June 29th 2020 TidbitsCounty, Dallas County ATMOSPHEREIC LAYERS (cont) • Hydrogen and helium, the lightest gasses, are the only gasses found in the exosphere. The temperature varies drastically, ranging from 1000° F in the day to just a few degrees above absolute zero at night. This is where satellites orbit. Beyond the exosphere is outer space. AIRBORNE • Besides gasses, the atmosphere is full of windblown bacteria, spores, pollen, and dust. • Bacteria are the smallest airborne items, while pollens are giants by comparison. • •The average cubic yard of atmosphere carries up to 10,000 airborne bacteria. Viable bacteria have been found floating 35 miles (56 km) up in the atmosphere. • When Charles and Anne Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic from Maine to Demark in 1934, they carried with them a set of sticky oil-coated microscope slides, which they exposed to the atmosphere at intervals at an altitude of about 3,000 feet (914 m). The slides were studied to see what sorts of spores they picked up floating through the air at some of the remotest spots on the planet. Every location showed large numbers of spores. • Spores of the common penicillin mold have been found floating at 50 miles (80 km). • Windstorms over Africa kick up huge loads of fine sand from the Sahara Desert and carry it aloft over the Atlantic Ocean. It takes between five and ten days for dust from the Sahara desert to cross the sea to land in Brazil. This rain of dust over the eons since the last ice age has made the rain forests possible by bringing calcium, iron, nitrogen, and potassium to nourish soils that are routinely stripped of nutrients by relentless rain. • Dust falling into the ocean nourishes plankton by providing more than half of the ocean’s phosphorus.
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By Lucie Winborne • During the Great Fire of New Orleans in 1788, priests refused to allow church bells to be rung as fire alarms because it was Good Friday. As a result, 856 buildings burned during the conflagration. • Ancient Egyptians believed that men menstruated too and that blood in men’s urine and stool was a positive sign of fertility. Little did they know that parasitic worms were the likely cause. • It would take less than six months to get to the moon by car at 60 mph. • It’s not every day that a man in love demonstrates his affection by holding a funeral, but future president Ulysses S. Grant wasn’t every man. When his future wife Julia’s pet canary died, he painstakingly fashioned a small coffin for it, which he painted yellow, then summoned eight of his fellow military officers to Julia’s house, where he conducted a service for the bird. • Babe Ruth once said he knew he didn’t swing hard enough if “a little poop didn’t come out.” • August Rodin’s work “The Age of Bronze” was so realistic that some people thought he’d actually sacrificed a real person inside the cast. • English poet Lord Byron was a student at Cambridge University when he took issue with the ban on keeping dogs as pets, so he came up with a unique way of getting back at the school: Since there was no prohibition in the fine print against bears on campus (probably because they’d never had a pupil quite like Byron before), he not only found a bear to keep as a pet, but also took it for walks around the grounds on a leash. • Despite being raised and identifying as Jewish, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen spent five years in seclusion at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center in California and was ordained a Buddhist monk in 1996. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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By Dr. Holly Carling
GET UP AND GO Exercise is undoubtedly vital to health. Since everything is so controversial today, I hate to say it is universally agreed upon, but I’m sure there are some out there that say exercise isn’t necessary. Really? For thousands of years, exercise was a given. You walked most places, worked in the fields, performed feats of labor that most people would cringe at now, and just in general, were physically fit because you were physical.In an everincreasing world of conveniences, we are becoming more and more lazy. We don’t have to get up to change channels on the TV, lift a heavy garage door open, or bring in firewood to keep our homes warm (well, some still do that). Our life of convenience means that we have to do an inconvenient thing – go to the gym. While that works great for some, for others, it doesn’t. So many people are fraught with challenges that make working out or even walking a challenge. Arthritis, fibromyalgia, fatigue, joint replacements, back pain and others too numerous to mention are prohibiting people from doing the very thing that would probably help their condition.Exercise improves circulation – this would benefit circulation to the brain, reducing mental sluggishness, and increasing memory, work performance and preventing brain “aging” diseases. It would benefit circulation disorders, cardiovascular health and liver health.
Exercise improves sleep, motivation, emotional health and energy. Exercise increases strength, flexibility and balance. It improves the immune system, bone health and longevity. Here comes the kicker: you’re too tired to exercise to reap the benefits of energy; you’re in too much physical pain to reap the benefits of increased muscular strength, joint and bone health; you’re too unmotivated either emotionally or energy-wise to reap the benefits of increased motivation; and your heart is in too bad of condition to reap the benefits of cardiovascular improvement. What are you to do? See a practitioner that helps you to get out of pain, improve your heart and organ health, help your get-up- and-go start getting-up-and-going, and the rest will follow. Acupuncturists and Naturopaths do just that. A good practitioner will look at the body comprehensively – from the top of the head to the tip of your toes. As health detectives, we put all the symptoms together – like a giant picture puzzle – to see what is underlying your fatigue, pain, organ dysfunction, immune or endocrine dysfunction. Then we treat YOU. When correcting the underlying issue that is causing a decline in health or tissue breakdown, and treating the patient’s entire body, not just an isolated symptom, the patient will find vital health in all areas, including the ability to exercise without pain or physical compromise. What a wonderful gift to yourself!
Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over three decades of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vitalhealthcda.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.
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Bugles Across America
There is no piece of music that elicits as much emotion as the 24 notes of “Taps,” the bugle call played at military funerals and ceremonies. In 2000, Congress passed legislation saying that the funerals of veterans should have two members of the military present, one to fold the flag and one to play “Taps.” The problem has been that in too many places there aren’t enough buglers. Funeral directors turned to “Taps” played on CD in a mechanical device that’s inserted into a bugle. That’s not quite the same thing. Bugles Across America was started in 2000 by Tom Day as a means of gathering buglers who would attend the funerals of veterans and play real “Taps.” Since he started, Day has signed up 4,000 buglers. Sounds like a lot, but it’s not, considering the number of veterans who pass away each day. Even during this lockdown the BAA is receiving 20-30 requests for buglers every day. You can help. All you have to do is play “Taps.” The steps: Check the website at buglesacrossamerica.org. If you already play, brush up. You’ll need to audition, in person, with your state’s director or another designated person from the organization. You can be male or female. You can play a bugle with none, one, two or three valves; a trumpet; a cornet or a flugelhorn. The instrument doesn’t matter, but your playing does. You must be very, very good with at least high school-level music playing experience. For more information, email info@buglesacrossamerica.org or click the Contact Us link on the website. If you need a bugler, click Request A Bugle. To get a feel for the BAA, go to the website and read the Bugler’s Post blogs. You’ll learn, among other things, that Tom Day is out there each evening at 7 p.m. to sound “Taps” in honor of all our fallen brothers and sisters. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
TRIVIA TEST By Fifi Rodriguez --1. ASTRONOMY: How often does the Sun rotate on its axis? 2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the state capital of Delaware? 3. GOVERNMENT: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution limits presidents to two terms in office? 4. HISTORY: What was the highest social class in the early Roman empire? 5. ENTERTAINERS: Which 20th-century actress was born with the name Lucille LeSueur? 6. TELEVISION: What were the names of Elly May’s two pet chimpanzees in “The Beverly Hillbillies”? 7. ART: Which artist painted “The Persistence of Memory”? 8. MOVIES: What kind of gun did Clint Eastwood carry in the “Dirty Harry” series? 9. MUSIC: Which singer-songwriter’s nickname was “The Lizard King”? 10. FOOD & DRINK: What is the most expensive spice on earth? Answers 1. On average, every 27 days 2. Dover 3. 22nd 4. Patricians 5. Joan Crawford 6. Skipper and Bessie 7. Salvador Dali 8. .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 9. Jim Morrison 10. Saffron (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Q&A with Susan Ashley, MD
Are Masks Really Necessary?
I live in WA which is now, because of our ineffectual governor and what they are allowing in Seattle, the laughing stock of the country. And now the governor has issued the unconstitutional verdict that we must all wear masks to prevent COVID-19. This must be based on science then, right, to make us all want to do this? And we should all bow down and do exactly as we’re told for the “good of the country”, correct? Well, if I thought it actually did good for our country, I would not hesitate. But masks do nothing of the sort, and in fact, cause more harm than good. Let’s review the facts. Face masks of various types are worn because of the mistaken belief that it will stop the spread of the virus. Even tho the CDC never suggested it in the beginning, and research points to masks as being ineffective for prevention. There is absolutely no scientific proof that wearing a mask is effective for containing a pandemic. The cotton homemade masks that many wear freely allow coronavirus particles to flow in and out of the mask. The surgeon general recently announced there was no need for people to wear a face mask unless they were actively infected. The WHO has stated that it is not necessary to wear face masks and does not recommend their routine use. Well, if masks don’t work, they don’t cause harm do they? Unfortunately, they do. There is evidence to suggest that wearing a mask is dangerous, for the following reasons:
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It is not natural to re-breath our exhaled air. When you cover your nose and mouth, you end up re-breathing that air, which raises blood CO2, which can be harmful. Especially if you have underlying COPD, or emphysema. Face masks cause people to re-breath exhaled viruses, thus increasing the number of viruses in the lungs and up the nose, providing the viruses access to the brain. This can increase risk of infection, rather than decrease. Wearing masks can lower oxygen levels so much, up to 20%, that a person can black out. This has happened to those driving a car, causing an accident. An elderly person I know passed out and hit their head while wearing a mask, sending them to the ER. The low oxygen is especially dangerous for those with lung problems, such as COPD, fibrosis, or asthma. The bottom line is that masks are not only useless, they can be dangerous. How do we get around it if we live/shop/visit WA state? It’s simple. You carry this: (now put in the attached image) You do NOT have to state your diagnosis or reason you can’t wear a mask, just that it poses a health risk.
Dr Ashley is board certified in Family Medicine and in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. She provides a mix of traditional with alternative medicine and specializes in bio-identical hormones for both men and women.
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PHOTO: Dwayne Johnson in “San Andreas” Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Ent. If you are a betting person, or just enjoy matchups, here’s a concept for you: the mock movie tournament. Take eight to 12 films that have a common theme, and drop them into a single elimination bracket. You can find these all over the internet, or draw one yourself. Grab a group of friends and have participants fill out their answers. Then re-watch these classics and compare notes. It works with many a genre, and I’ll happily get you started with 12 disaster movies (sans aliens) in no particular order. Fun fact: The actor William Fichtner stars in two top-tier disaster films: “Armageddon” and “The Perfect Storm.” “The Core” (2003) -- The planet is dying, and a pack of brave souls must burrow down to the very center of the world to restart Earth’s engines. “Armageddon” (1998) -- A group of maverick oil drillers are pressed into space service to blast an asteroid off its disastrous trajectory. “Outbreak” (1995) -- A small town goes on lockdown after a monkey introduces a dangerous new virus to its residents; meanwhile, the military will stop at nothing to contain it. “Crawl” (2019) -- A hurricane is not scary enough, so they added alligators and enclosed spaces to up the ante. “The Perfect Storm” (2000) -- A tropical storm meets cold front, creating a 150-foot rogue wave that meet a fishing boat in the middle of the sea in this terrifying true tale of the Andrea Gale. “Contagion” (2011) -- Virulent airborne germs rip through the global population, spreading death and fear with each new case. “Geostorm” (2017) -- Once-in-a-lifetime weather events converge to wreak havoc on land and sea -- and can only be fixed from space?! “2012” (2009) -- The end is nigh, and a smalltime limo driver turns action hero to get his family to the only safe place in the world: a series of superboats hidden in a mountain. “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) -- Instantaneous ice age cannot stop a geologist from rescuing his college-age son who’s stuck above the freeze line. “Deep Impact” (1998)-- Morgan Freeman plays the president who attempts to calm a nation facing down a world-ending asteroid. “Twister” (1996) -- Storm chasers looking to decode the power of tornadoes track down and delve into an F5, exposing the carnage that they leave on towns, relationships and people. “San Andreas” (2015) -- The Rock takes on Mother Nature when LA is hit by the big one as the San Andreas fault breaks. Here’s more options: “Titanic,” “The Impossible,” “Poseidon,” “The Wave,” “The Quake,” “Volcano,” “Dante’s Peak” and “Into the Storm.” (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On July 9, 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer-suburb of London. Twenty-one amateurs showed up to compete in the Gentlemen’s Singles tournament, the only event at the first Wimbledon. The winner was to take home a 25-guinea trophy. • On July 10, 1887, a dam breaks in Zug, Switzerland, killing 70 people. The resulting wall of water was so powerful that rescue boats were ineffective, as they capsized in the roiling waters. • On July 7, 1917, Britain establishes the British Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), authorizing female volunteers to serve alongside their male counterparts in France during World War I. Some 80,000 women enlisted to perform labors such as cookery, mechanical and clerical work, and other tasks. • On July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, a fire breaks out under the big top of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus, killing 167 people and injuring 682. An investigation revealed that the tent had been treated with flammable paraffin thinned with three parts of gasoline to make it waterproof. • On July 8, 1959, Maj. Dale Buis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand become the first Americans killed in the U.S. phase of the Vietnam War when guerrillas strike a Military Assistance Advisory Group compound in Saigon. • On July 11, 1979, parts of Skylab, America’s first space station, come crashing down on Australia and into the Indian Ocean five years after the last manned Skylab mission ended. Skylab weighed 77 tons. • On July 12, 1995, a heat advisory is issued in Chicago, warning of an impending recordbreaking heat wave. When the heat broke a week later, nearly 1,000 people were dead in Illinois and Wisconsin. The temperature in the city hit 106 F with a heat index of 120 F. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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“THE END OF ALZHEIMER’S STARTS WITH YOU!”
By Matilda Charles
Don’t be Pushed!
Local restaurants here were supposed to be able to open for inside sit-down service next week. Depending on the square footage, up to 50 people at a time were going to be allowed inside. Then, suddenly, the permission was rescinded and those restaurants won’t be opening. Instead, they’ll all have to continue with carry-out and curbside service for the foreseeable future. I for one am massively relieved. The pressure had been building with friends as we waited out the months in lockdown. We’d be first in line at our favorite restaurant when it reopened, said a few of them. We’d make advance reservations. Others wondered how many of us could sit around one table. It would be like old times, they said. And, they insisted, we would all go. I was going to be the hold out, but they didn’t know that. They made assumptions about my participation. They didn’t suspect, because they didn’t ask, that being first into a restaurant for a sit-down meal was not something I wanted to do. Are you in this position? As varying degrees of “open” are spreading across the country, as many types of businesses open in different ways, some of us are being coaxed (pushed?) to participate, to get out and support local businesses that have taken great financial hits during this long lockdown. Don’t do it if you’re not comfortable. If the coronavirus numbers are still rising in your area to a degree that makes you nervous, don’t go out yet, even if the authorities say certain businesses can open. Stand your ground, strongly if you must. Your small contribution to a local restaurant or other business won’t make or break their financial situation. You don’t need to feel responsible for their financial health ... but you do need to be responsible for your health. Don’t go out until you’re ready. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
“The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to end Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research. Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, this inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions. Together, families, friends, co-workers, and members of the community display combined strength and dedication in the fight against this devastating disease. The funds raised through Walk to End Alzheimer’s benefit the care, support, and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. We strive to: Help families across the country by continuing to provide and enhance programs focusing on education and support. Advance critical research studies into methods of treatment, prevention, and ultimately, a care. Speak up for the needs and rights of those facing Alzheimer’s through our public policy initiatives.” (Walk to End Alzheimer’s, Alzheimer’s Association, 2018) The Lodge Family is heading up the Sponsorship Committee for this year’s remarkable event, working side by side with our community caregiving partners!! How can you help??? Contact Linda at 208-755-3637 or at linda@lodgeliving.net with your ideas and commitments!!! Thank you!
LindaDavis Director of building relationships. 208.457.3403 www.LodgeLiving.net
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1. Which group started out with the name Sweet Children? 2. Name the singer who originally released “Sea Cruise.” 3. What do these groups have in common: Don and Juan, The Cascades and The Surfaris. 4. Which group started as an a capella group at Columbia University? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Since I saw her this morning, I’m on cloud number nine, Found a garden of Eden at the house next door to mine.” Answers 1. Green Day. They’d started in 1986 as Sweet Children when they were only 15 years old, but changed the name to avoid confusion with another local group, Sweet Baby. 2. Frankie Ford, in 1959. Numerous others later covered the song: Herman’s Hermits in 1965, Freddy Cannon in 1968 and Johnny Rivers in 1971. 3. They were all one-hit wonders in the 1960s, releasing “What’s Your Name,” “Rhythm of the Rain” and “Wipe Out,” respectively. 4. Sha Na Na, originally called the Kingsmen. 5. “Next Door to an Angel,” by Neil Sedaka in 1962. The song was the last time Sedaka made it to the Top 10 until he came out with “Laughter in the Rain” 12 years later. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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New provider joins Heritage Health- Melanie Moss is drawn to help people.
She is working as a physician assistant at the Coeur d’Alene clinic and she likes getting to know her patients. “I love learning their stories and celebrating with them when they have a success,” said Moss. “I try my best to have a kind and gentle heart towards all of my patients. Having compassion is a big part of my style.” Melanie previously worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant in Minnesota and that experience led her to want to become a physician assistant. She was drawn to Heritage Health because of its mission to help all people access health care. “Being able to touch these patient’s lives is something that excites me,” said Moss. “We can really make a difference for people who might not otherwise have access to health care.” Melanie earned her physician assistant degree from A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona. She earned her undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences and chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Melanie completed her residency at a federally qualified health center in Merced, California. Fun facts: Melanie is an experienced fly fisherwoman. She worked as a fly-fishing guide in Colorado for seven summers. She also worked as a wake surf and wakeboard instructor in Coeur d’Alene for several summers prior to PA school. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors.
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