This was a move about getting a unanimous recommendation from the Patrick board. It's a full price.

Our bid for Patrick is now full steam ahead.

It's quite a ringing endorsement to get a recommendation to have it back on the market with a unanimous vote.

The board of directors is not making a recommendation to shareholders to accept or to reject the offer.

We were unanimous this morning in our view that nothing should happen -- at least from the Big Board -- until after both the millennium change and 'decimalization' have been accomplished,

As a San Diegan and a pain management specialist, I am appalled that our Board of Supervisors is defying the will of county voters, and doing it in order to wage a war on the sick.