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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…
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"Dr. Vainio, I'm so glad you were there," she said.It is often during critical events in healthcare that medical students learn from their mentors.
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In the Spirit of Medicine features the essays of Dr. Arne Vainio, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the…
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I spent time talking with students at the conference and was struck by how much difference even just a short conversation could have with someone…
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“A great sickness has been visited upon us as human beings. This happened to us as Native people a long time ago and it devastated us and killed us by the…
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He turned on the amplifier and I expected to hear the twangy sounds of the 1950’s. Poodle skirts and ducktail haircuts were in my mind, but what came out…
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I told them my people can sense insincerity and they can sense defeat. They can tell if you think they are dysfunctional or hopeless or alcoholic or…
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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…
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When Arne Vainio set out to write articles on the epidemic of Native youth suicide for Indian Country Today and Indianz.com, he put out a call for names…