TRIBUTE (By Jim Klobuchar) His first patients were immigrant miners who sometimes came to his office wearing redsmudged work clothes of the iron ore pits and barely disguised expressions of terror. They were diggers and hardliving men. Nobody gave them an orientation course on what to expect when they walked into a dentists office. Whatever they expected. they found William Medalie. in a place and role that might have flabbergasted the relatives he left behind in the Jewish settlements of Latvia on the fringe of thenczarist Russia. In 1919 he was a precise little man of 26 in his first year out of dental college. confidentlyhe insists todayhandling his instruments and trying to calm the wary miners in five or six languages. all of which he knew better than English.
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