This month marks my 40th year of practicing medicine. I think back to my childhood living in Milwaukee, Wisc. with a father who was a family doctor in a solo practice on call 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week. Our home phone rang day and night and Dad frequently left his comfortable home and much-needed sleep to go make a house call, admit someone to the hospital, or deliver a baby

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- Logan Gregory Weston was born to Yasmin Aide (Martinez) and Gregory Michael Weston of Scotts Valley at 1:46 p.m. Aug. 16, 2013. He weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

I've been writing this column for 4 years. Some months I come up with the topic and some months my editor does. This month falls into the latter category. I was asked to write about the sales tax increase Scotts Valley will vote on in November.