As you read this, the election season will be in full swing and I hope that you are fully engaged in the process. There are still physicians who believe that participation in the political process is somehow inappropriate for a caring profession. Well, they are wrong.
Health care is an issue that is as politicized as education and social security.
Even the practice of medicine is grist for the political mill. Each year there are more and more scope of practice issues debated at the legislature. Our mission is to protect the health of the public and this means that we need to be involved in politics. Every physician needs to do two things. There are only 3000 physicians and spouses in South Dakota, so numbers are going to have to be supplemented with political donations.