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There are currently more than 1.6 million children that face unique challenges from their parent’s military experiences. April is designated as the Month of the Military Child in an effort to recognize the unique sacrifices, service, and resilience of military children and their families. Among the challenges that military children face are constant moves, family separations and potential exposure to the aftereffects of war. In light of the Month of the Military Child, Wagner’s own Jazlyn Lhotak shared her experience as a military child of a deployed soldier.
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Those of us who make our homes in the rural midwest understand that we face medical challenges our countrymen in more populated areas don’t. For example, there are two pediatric rheumatologists in the whole state of South Dakota. . . and they are both based in Fargo. In contrast, there are 10 in the Twin Cities with the University of Minnesota alone. In Winner South Dakota, you are nearly 150 miles away from emergency access to a neurosurgeon, assuming you can go by air. No matter where you are in Connecticut, that help is no more than 50 miles away.
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When I first moved to Brookings, the primary care physicians took care of their own patients in the hospital. We would round on patients in the morning before clinic or try to sneak over during lunch or after clinic. While I loved taking care of patients in the hospital, it was hard to juggle the responsibilities of both giving my attention to the patients in the hospital while seeing people in the clinic. Any time the hospital nurse had a question; my clinic nurse would have to interrupt a clinic visit or wait for me to between patients. This could lead to some less-than-ideal times where I was being pulled in multiple directions at once.
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For the past year, a new business has been establishing itself in Lake Andes as a brand that builds with integrity and with customer relations at the forefront of its business ideology. That construction business is East River Builders, owned and operated by Matt Lehman. When asked how he came up with the name for the construction business, Matt said that he wanted a simple name to describe the services that the company provides.
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The Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award is an annual award given by Bausch & Lomb and the University of Rochester. This award was established in 1933 and has been given out annually since and is awarded at the international level. In order to be considered for this award, a student must be a high school junior, display academic excellence in science, take a rigor of courses in science, earn excellent scores in either the PSAT Math, SAT Math and or ACT Math/Science, and be nominated by a teacher.
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