Opinion

I’ve learned a lot from my patients over the years. Sometimes, the lessons are learned as I walk beside them through struggles, both medical and non-medical.

Last week’s column told of the low morale of the Sioux people in 1882 at the Standing Rock agency and Major James McLaughlin’s effort to improve the morale by instigating a buffalo hunt on the western edge of the Standing Rock. The following is a continuation of how that great hunt went.

Allow me to throw a little history at you today. It’s about what was unquestionably the greatest hunt ever in the history of the Dakota Territory.

No South Dakotan alive today shook the hand of our first governor, Arthur Mellette, or stood with Valentine McGillycuddy atop Black Elk Peak. But we can still gain insight into the men and women who helped shape our state through the people who study and portray them today as historical re-enactors.

Many people are familiar with the classic Abbott and Costello comedy skit “Who’s on First?

PSALM 139:1-14 "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down sittings and mine uprising, thou understandeth my thoughts afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

The year 2021 marks an anniversary of sorts. Prior to 1991, the late Frank Belrose conducted extensive research on the ingesting (eating) of lead shot by ducks.

The year 2021 marks an anniversary of sorts. Prior to 1991, the late Frank Belrose conducted extensive research on the ingesting (eating) of lead shot by ducks.

Other than classical music and the Beatles, I’m kind of a country guy. “Grandpa, Tell Me about the Good Old Days” by the Judds is one of my favorites. Today this grandpa is going to tell you about what he sees as a part of the good old days…..at least firearms wise.

It was my first month in the hospital as a new internal medicine intern at a large university hospital. Upper-level residents that I met during orientation asked me, “What is your first rotation?” When I answered, “hepatology,” the looks I got in response told me I was in for a tough initiation.