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Author Archives: ddxdx
Coroner Story: Alone
I often seek solitude, but it’s always temporary. I lived very isolated for a couple years and I got a clear sense what it was doing to my psyche. So, I jumped back into the world. But I still tend … Continue reading
Shoot the Messenger
Last year I spoke too soon. I applauded Representative Blanksma for making some recommendations to her body. This year I’m offering raspberries. She recommended expanded coverage for kids in the CHIP program, as well as a recommendation to expand Medicaid … Continue reading
Coroner Story: Never End
The Never-ending Story See if you can tell where this begins. Or if it ends. I’m finally telling it because a young man asked me for a good story at the dinner table the other night. To end a wonderful … Continue reading
Work for It
It seems our Governor is considering work requirements for Medicaid enrollees. He hasn’t done his research. Or maybe he has, and this is a Trojan Horse, just waiting for the Idaho Freedom Foundation to roll it within its walls. Do … Continue reading
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Coroner Story: Road
She was found by the road. And so, I was called. It can be foggy after a rain in the spring. The wheat loves the rain that rolls in from the ocean two hundred miles west. We get good rain … Continue reading
Influence
We are products of our environments, no doubt, but we bring our traits, our tendencies to such. The environment shapes each of us differently. My late father was born more than a hundred years ago. His broken home and rural … Continue reading
Coroner Story: Black Heelocopters
Sometimes how you get the call is an important part of the story. Sometimes, it’s who calls you, sometimes it why they thought you needed to be called, sometimes it why you weren’t called. All these little nuances to being … Continue reading
Bull Schmidt
I know Congressman Russ Fulcher well. And I appreciate he can say what he thinks should be said. But I feel free to call him out when he speaks, what my high school taunters called, “Bull Schmidt.” There has been … Continue reading
Intentions
Do you want everybody to have health insurance? I am yelling this question into a sharp, dark westerly wind, in the middle of a long winters’ night. Questions like that know their own answers. I know it. But I want … Continue reading
Coroner Story…..New Years
It was a weekend of being on call for the group. I started early Saturday morning in the hospital. I rounded on patients in the hospital then I needed to cover the Saturday clinic from 830 to 1:00 in the … Continue reading
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