You did it!  Yubadocs would like to extend a huge thank you to our wonderful community for fighting to keep our local beloved state parks open!  Over 10,000 Nevada County residents signed a petition to remove the South Yuba River and Malakoff Diggins State Parks from the state parks’ closure list!  Yesterday, 100 Nevada County representatives headed to the state capitol to hand deliver the petition signatures.  Please see SYRCL’s website for details.  Click here to proceed to their announcement. 

On January 17, 2012, Roger Hicks, MD, testified before the California Senate Appropriations Committee in support of SB810.  Watch his speech.  It begins at 18:52 on this video: http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/3245

SB810 is a bill that proposes to create universal healthcare in California.   The author, Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), explains the bill’s purpose in the following statement:

      Senate Bill 810 establishes a modern universal health care system that provides every California resident with comprehensive benefits for life, containing the growth in health care spending and ensuring patient-centered, high quality health care for all Californians.  The plan is fully funded with the money we already spend on health care. It eliminates wasteful insurance overhead, invests in electronic infrastructure that improves quality while reducing cost, emphasizes prevention and primary health care, and utilizes California’s purchasing power to realize savings on prescriptions and medical equipment (“About SB810.” Senator Mark Leno. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. http://sd03.senate.ca.gov/sb810/about).

Dr. Hicks was also interviewed about SB810 for an article in our local newspaper, The Union.  The article was featured on the front page on January 31, 2012.  To view it online, click here.

Flu season is here.  This week, Nevada County saw its first cases of confirmed influenza.  Please protect yourselves and others around you by practicing healthy hygiene and getting your flu shot.  For more information on protecting yourself from influenza, visit http://www/cdc/gov/flu/.

Yubadocs has only 100 flu shots left.  If you have not already vaccinated yourself for this flu season, walk in to get your flu shot today.  As always, we carry only mercury-free flu shots.

This is a link to Montana Governor Brian Schweizer’s radio interview from 11-25-11.  It addresses many of the same issues that were discussed at Tuesday night’s ”Health, Money and Fear,” event including single payor and controlling the cost of medical care. There will be an encore showing of this film on Dec. 6 at the Nevada Theater.

Governor Brian Schweizer KDVS radio interview 11-25-11

No matter what your age, exercise is good for you!

We want to help our youth develop a life-long habit of getting regular exercise. And, of course, we want to support our local school teams.  To do this, we offer sports physicals at a discounted price of $40 to local high school and junior high students for school-sponsored teams.  No appointment is necessary- just walk in.  Be sure to bring the sports physical forms, including the health history form, provided by your school.