The 93 best physicians in the valley, as chosen by their peers (Part I) How To use this Guide: Doctors are listed alphabetically beneath specialty areas. Private practices are then listed with address and phone number.

The 93 best physicians in the valley, as chosen by their peers (Part II) How To use this Guide: Doctors are listed alphabetically beneath specialty areas. Private practices are then listed with address and phone number.

Mount Charleston has long been a site of raging wildfires sparked by lightning, but in 1955, it was the site of a different kind of conflagration. These particular flames issued from a spectacular plane crash, a crash that killed all 14 passengers on board on the morning of Nov.

Nevada has one of the worst physician shortages in the country. Yet most of our medical school graduates leave the state to train and practice elsewhere.

So, surprise: Las Vegas isn’t exactly renowned as a paragon of healthy living. Maybe we can’t be completely blamed for that distinction, given our mandate to peddle ourselves in the global marketplace as the nation’s test site where tourists are invited to suspend the rules of common sense and subject their vital organs to a marathon obstacle course of punishing fun.

While most of us spent the formative years of our youth in roving neighborhood gangs, spraypainting grannies and cursing at puppies, Lyle Lovett took the high road and formed a big band. Goodie two shoes! An Evening with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band is 7:30p Aug.

Teaming up on a tough case, this medical couple ensured the show would go on for a Strip musician Dr. Annabel Barber is a general surgeon who subspecializes in oncology.

Inspired as a child to study medicine, this doctor takes a maverick approach to health care — and gets results When she was only 8 years old, Sarah Heiner knew she wanted to practice medicine. She was a sick little girl in suburban Chicago who, along with her older brother, suffered from acute asthma.

August is a restless time in Southern Nevada: It’s ridiculously hot and the novelty of summer vacation wore off back in, what, late June? Luckily, there are plentiful regional museums nearby to entertain the historian, the burgeoning artist, the high-score-obsessed arcade geek and, for that matter, just about anyone who wants to find a way to add a few brain-fortifying excursions to their late-summer agenda. The Lost City Museum in Overton, Nevada (721 S.

With steady hands and X-ray vision, Dr. Bandt is known for performing the first of a life-saving procedure in Nevada When Paul Bandt graduated from medical school at the University of Minnesota in 1966, he couldn’t have imagined the future of his work.