KevinMD December 6, 2025
I was the expectant team leader at Minot, the one designated to survive “a little longer than the others” if nuclear war came. My role was not glamorous. It was a reminder that even in medicine, some of us were expendable. Years later, I was nearly sent to the First Gulf War, and I watched colleagues deployed to Afghanistan, developmental pediatricians pressed into service far from the children they were trained to help. Some came back grievously injured.
Even as a child, I understood that death was my greatest enemy, one I vowed to confront armed with every ounce of medical knowledge I could gather. And yet I swore an oath to God to defend the Constitution of the United...
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