Purnell to discuss cycling injuries in Wednesday lecture
Orthopedic physician Dr. Mark Purnell will give a free talk on cycling injuries at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Aspen Valley Hospital’s Oden Conference Center.
Purnell will discuss the various causes of cycling injuries (and what you can do to prevent them), along with the diagnosis and treatment of injuries.
Dr. Stanley Gertzbein will provide the final talk in the summer series of orthopedic lectures on July 27. His lecture is titled “The Herniated Disc.”
For more information, call 544-1296.
Historians in Aspen agree: It’s a slippery time for American democracy
Given the United States is in the throes of a constitutional crisis, now isn’t the time for debates over who’s pictured on American currency and who’s memorialized with a statue on public property, two prominent historians told an audience in Aspen on Saturday night.

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