Author Archives: ddxdx

About ddxdx

A Family physician, former county coroner and former Idaho State Senator

Coroner Story: Never End

Posted on January 14, 2024 by ddxdx

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 →

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Work for It

Posted on January 11, 2024 by ddxdx

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

Posted on January 8, 2024 by ddxdx

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 →

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Influence

Posted on January 4, 2024 by ddxdx

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 →

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Coroner Story: Black Heelocopters

Posted on December 29, 2023 by ddxdx

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 →

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Bull Schmidt

Posted on December 21, 2023 by ddxdx

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 →

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Intentions

Posted on December 18, 2023 by ddxdx

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 →

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Coroner Story…..New Years

Posted on December 14, 2023 by ddxdx

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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The Call

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ddxdx

I was cutting dadoes down in my shop when I felt the vibration in my breast pocket. Unidentified number so I went back to the table saw. When I got another shot of the cooling morning coffee I looked again … Continue reading →

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Communism, Not Libraries

Posted on December 4, 2023 by ddxdx

It seems the Freedom Foundation warriors have library porn in their cross hairs. Who would oppose protecting children? The sweet little things. I just had a long afternoon with some difficult, not very sweet granddaughters. They were not at their … Continue reading →

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