Two op-eds from the Island boards of health.

Thanks to technology, there are many more avenues for communication today.

Everybody Lies by Emily Cavanagh, Bookouture, 2020, 282 pages, $10.99.

For many years, instead of eating Thanksgiving dinner I called up the local health club and asked if I could use their sauna.

Unlike so many Thanksgivings before, a meal my family won’t share, emotion is felt so much more.

As a young emergency room physician in a small hospital a few miles north of Boston, I had just failed to resuscitate a wiry gentleman in his late 80s.