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If I were king.#Christmas

If I were king.#Christmas

Grateful for the way these turkeys turned out. #

Grateful for the way these turkeys turned out. #GobbleGobble

Happy Thanksgiving, ya Turkeys! 🦃

Happy Thanksgiving, ya Turkeys! 🦃

Powerful, isn't it? Sometimes in medicine, it can

Powerful, isn't it? Sometimes in medicine, it can feel that way. Like you're drowning, an uphill climb to say the least. Especially in this seemingly never ending pandemic. Covid cases now on the rise, hospitals filling up again, despite known ways to prevent this disease that we aren't doing enough. The refusal of so many to do their part only adds to the burden and exhaustion of this marathonous battle.Did I just create the word marathonous? Perfect fit.A battle in which hundreds of doctors and nurses have died from the very disease we showed up to treat, in a system that does bare more than the minimum to support our mission.There is good news. Numerous vaccines bring true hope for an end. There will come a time when we will be back to worrying only about a surge from the flu, and heart attacks and appendixes. And when the dust clears after this war is over, for those who fought and sacrificed, they will have something that can never be taken away. When it mattered, you showed up and did your part. Hero.Early on, when it wasn't clear how risky it was to work on the front line, I thought about my own death. I imagined dodging this draft, and how it would feel later, to have quit and sat out--and to have done so precisely when I was most needed. Pure cowardice. What an awful feeling to live with for the rest of your life.No judgement on those who are not fit for this battle. If I had cancer and was on chemo, I'd have no shame to sit this out. But I've also watched some younger and healthies give up their shifts, a convenient time for a sabbatical. Losers, let's call it what it is."You're not thinking right," a colleague told me, when I went to volunteer in New York. What if I got Covid and died from it, running to the front lines to help other people. I can't think of a better way to go. We're all going to die. Maybe I've got 40 or 50 years left, if I'm lucky. Maybe only 10. But it became clear to me, that dying on that field of battle, not one where I'm killing people, but exactly the opposite, in the arena where people are literally dying to save other lives. Yes, that is glory, my friend.

Gone bird huntin with dad, cuz and the dogs. Back

Gone bird huntin with dad, cuz and the dogs. Back in a few.#Movember #SouthDakota #PheasantHunting

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