Christ follower, husband, father, grandfather. family physician, hockey addict, pickleballer, and into projects of all kinds. My background is very blue collar. I loved running my father’s excavation equipment, farm work, skidding logs with my brother Myron, woodwork, metalwork, and aircraft maintenance prior to embarking on a journey in the practice of medicine. A kind mentor named Fred, my sister Gwen’s husband gets credit for directing me down this unlikely pathway after a government policy change pulled the rug out from my job caring for airplanes.
I value how that background helps me identify with patients from all occupations.
Welcome. Thanks for visiting. I hope you find my articles helpful. In my work as a family physician in North Idaho I get to have conversations with many people about the things that matter most. For the last few years I’ve been hearing a lot on the topic of covid and mandates. People are very concerned. They believe the country they love is changing for the worse. They see freedom being lost. I share their concern.
Purpose
I am not a native Idahoan. I am an immigrant from Canada. I moved my family here specifically to find freedom. Health care in Canada is completely funded and therefore controlled by government. By the end of my training I had come to see that life as a government employee was not for me. We chose Idaho for its old school conservative values, particularly freedom from heavy handed government. We love Idaho and America. We have an appreciation that many who were born here do not. We feel very much at home here.
Coming from my background gives me the ability to see clearly where this country is headed. It’s not just health care of course. Socialism intrudes on all aspects of life in Canada. Control is centralized in Ottawa. The lockdown measures there are draconian. In other areas of the commonwealth like Australia they have a police state completely disregarding rights and freedoms. Other immigrants from communist countries see the trend even more clearly and wish for Americans to wake up before it is too late.
My goal and prayer is to communicate in a way that represents the concerns of those who are awake, and to give those who are not a nudge. America is still the beacon of freedom and hope for the world. But not for long if the current trend continues.
Grateful for like minded people who speak truth. Praying that the election in this country may put a stick in the spokes of the socialist/ satanic machine driving America off a cliff. Have a blessed day of Thanksgiving. We still have much for which to thank God today.