Opinion

The elderly patient came back to our rural hospital from a hospital in a nearby larger city after having had major surgery and feeding-tube placement. The care from the bigger hospital was superb except that the patient was getting too much nutrient and fluids and was a bit “overloaded.

America’s most popular insecticide, Imidacloprid, is sold under a number of different brand names that are readily available in a number of outlets . Recent research released by South Dakota State University indicates that exposure of this insecticide has a negative effect on white-tailed deer.

This past week I received two surprising phone calls on the same subject and it took me by surprise. Two different producers called me to talk about their pretax meetings. The pre-tax meeting did not take me by surprise but what they asked me about certainly did!

PROVERBS 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."(KJV) No temptation to fall into sin ever comes from God. Those who are trying to get you to do something that you know is against God, are following the leadership of Satan.

President Bill Frei presided over the October 30th meeting of the Wagner Rotary Club. He called upon Pastor Bill Heermann to offer up a prayer. Pastor Bill gave thanks for the day and remembered former Wagner Rotary member Ed Staudenmier and his family.

I am a physician who believes in evidence-based science. I am also old, approaching my own “last chapter” from pancreatic cancer. I share this, not to engender pity . . . none.

Saturday’s October 19th pheasant opener was my 60th as a South Dakotan. Never have I seen fewer pheasants. We didn’t see enough birds to fill our limit, and by day’s end, I had no desire to kill a bird that had survived what must have been brutal conditions.

HEBREWS 6:9-20 "But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Years ago, a family brought a 25-year-old farmer into the emergency room with a gunshot hole over his heart and with no pulse or breathing for more than ten minutes. It was a self-inflicted wound and this young farmer would farm no more.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod This past SD spring turkey season was our first where rifle hunting was made illegal. It appears that the policy change received minimal attention.