Opinion

You would think that making the prices charged by hospitals and doctors available to their patients would be a no-brainer. After all, we’ve become accustomed to knowing the price we pay for cars, carrots, comic books, and almost everything else we buy. Why not knee surgery or appendectomies?

The opening line of Jack Broome’s 9/11/19 “From the West End” column in the Burke Gazette reads and I’ll quote, “One of the greatest adjustments we oldies have is dealing with rapidly changing technology.” Truer words were never spoken.

Assistant Vice President Bryan Slaba kept ringing the bell at the Wagner Rotary Club, Wednesday, September 18th until he managed to get some eyebrows raised! VP Slaba was standing in for President Bill Frei who was unable to make it to the meeting.

For years I cared for a young gentleman with recurrent leg swelling associated with redness, fever, pain and open sores between his toes and lower legs and the rash of athlete’sfoot.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod Back in 2014, just after returning from a hunting-fishing trip in the Caprivi Strip area of Namibia Africa, I predicted that Botswana would one day reopen the sport hunting of big game on public lands that it had shut down.

School is back in session, which means so is Congress. I spent the last six weeks in South Dakota for the summer in-state work period. I’ve said it before – I don’t think Congress needs a six-week break. We have work to do in Washington. However, my time spent in the state was valuable.

People don’t like talking about tough things – things that make us uncomfortable or sad. Things that make us feel small. Things that are heartbreaking. Suicide is one of those things. Suicide means a family learning to livewithoutamom, dad, brother, or sister.

HOW IS IT GOING FOR YOU? PROVERBS 27:20 : Hell and destruction are never full: So the eyes of man are never satisfied."(KJV) The second half of this verse brings out a description of many people today. People are not satisfied with what they have, but are always trying to get more.

In 40 years of practice, I have seen how the final moments of one’s life can be inspiring or agonizing, no matter the manner of death. As I see it, the fear of death is a greater enemy than death itself. This has brought me to make the following recommendations for approaching our final moments.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod Our SD archery deer season opened back on the first of the month, and SD deer hunting in one form or another will be open well into January. Relative to this, I have subscribed to the North American Whitetail magazine for the past year.