WASHINGTON — Medical science has learned a great deal about the causes of pain and ways to relieve it, pain experts say, but for a host of reasons, the treatment of pain and suffering has improved hardly at all in recent years.
It was 1945, and Oscar Whitaker was in a Louisville hospital, yet another of the Whitaker family struck with some kind of cancer. Stanley, who was 8 and was visiting, was already aware that this is what killed Whitakers.
The public will have a chance to ask local political candidates questions about family violence, sexual assault and other crime concerns at a public forum Tuesday afternoon.
I was talking with a friend last week, catching up on all the years we had not been in contact, when the conversation turned to the economy and our wallets.