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 Ever Ready
Story by NICHOLAS DESHAIS
A hangar at Felts Field holds many movable hospitals. One helicopter sits fueled up, the pilot and medical crew just a few steps away. Another has its casing removed and a mechanic fiddles with its innards. On the other side of the building, an ambulance just pulled in after transferring a patient from one hospital to another; its driver heads to the break room with a Subway sandwich in his hand. A fixed-wing takes up the most space in the hangar, ready to fly someone in need as far as Seattle.
The communications center sits in the middle of all this, the staff set to scramble at a moment’s notice if a far-flung emergency arises. This is the home of MedStar, the Inland Northwest’s only ambulance service that flies. Read More>>
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 Studying Spokane
Story by NICHOLAS DESHAIS
The bright young students at the University of Washington’s medical school always spend their second year of studies in Seattle. The hubbub and opportunity offered in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city is exciting.
Then their third year begins and some end up learning in Spokane’s hospitals and clinics. Some of them consider this a spell of bad luck.
“That’s not the case for me. So don’t worry,” says Derek Khorsand, 24, with a laugh. He came here last July with his wife Kate, both in their third year of studies at UW’s School of Medicine. “We wanted to check out Spokane’s huge medical community and see if this is a place we could live in the future, where we could practice.”
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 Yogic Confinement
Story by NICHOLAS DESHAIS
ALT MEDICINE Picture if you can a man serving a life sentence in prison for a violent crime. Before him and a dozen others like him is a slight woman teaching them to stretch purposefully, breathe mindfully and to practice ahimsa, a tenet of hatha yoga that is Sanskrit for “do no harm.”
“There’s a guard down the hall, but it’s just me. I trust them. We have a rapport,” says Diane Sherman, a volunteer who has taught beginning and advanced yoga classes at the Airway Heights Corrections Center since 2010. “For some of them, the only way to feel a sense of liberation is through this. It’s a possible route to them being OK with their predicament.” Read More>>
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Could It Be Low T?
Story by NICHOLAS DESHAIS
55 PLUS In the last few years, Stephen Willis has talked to more and more patients about the hormone that, physically speaking, makes men be men: testosterone.
It deepens the voice, grows the beard and puts on muscle. It stimulates the sex drive. But after age 30, testosterone levels start a downward trek. Though “T” decreases by only about 1 percent a year, over a couple of decades… well, a lot of testosterone is just not there anymore. And that’s what worries Willis’s patients. Read More>>
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