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We live in a competitive world, but traditionally we are not a competitive people. Our heritage is to share our wealth. Our heritage is humility. Our…

She was 94 pounds and 28 years old, but you couldn?t tell her age by looking at her. She had the rotting teeth that come with using meth. But mostly, her…

George has always told me seeing a doctor dancing would be healing for everyone and I discovered that meant me as much as anyone else. Richard is a young…

"One of the women at the bar told him, 'You Finlanders don't have the guts to shoot yourselves.' That was the last sentence he heard."

This week, what tools do we have when we run out of time?In the Spirit of Medicine features the essays of Dr. Arne Vainio, an enrolled member of the Mille…

I always think when you’re finding your family history, you want there to be a haunted Scottish castle on a moor and maybe some kind of lost treasure.…

Ojibwe author Jim Northrup took me aside at his seventieth birthday party a couple of years ago and told me it was time for me to write a book. He told me…

These men are in prison with the expectation from society that they are going to change for the better. They should be able to expect the same from us in…

“This insulation and caulking are for my daughter’s house. She left home when she was seventeen and she was never coming back. She has a daughter who’s…

There are maybe a double handful of people I really credit with my becoming a doctor. Walt Boorsma is one of them. I first met him when I was about 18 and…