title: A Sioux medicine man describes his own illness and approaching death.
abstract: A Sioux medicine man spent a long professional life as a "primary care" rural indigenous practitioner. He was treated, against his wishes, in a modern hospital for his own last illness. His description of that experience and of his non-Western medical practice emphasizes persisting problems in the humanistic aspects of our science.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D013023:South Dakota