She made a commitment that if she was to come out of there alive, she would do something to help the people. She talked to people about what they felt were the most pressing needs. Which, that's what it is sometimes, here. Twenty-five or even up to as many as fifty percent of the adult population may be affected by diabetes. There's a certain amount of alcohol-related illness.
Heart disease is incredibly frequent around here.
One of the things that's real unique in the Porcupine Clinic, is the large number of children we see every day. Clinic founders had seen too many projects try to address such needs and fail, bogged down in bureaucracy and politics. So they created an independent body of community members empowered to control decision making, and began to raise money in 1982. Today somebody brought a western to watch on the video player in the clinic's solar-heated waiting room. You know, it's really hard to get into Pine Ridge Clinic sometimes, and it's almost impossible to get into Kyle Clinic.