Settevendemie, Michael

As a young man, my life was blessed with the generosity of older men and enriched by their stores. It was an out-of-doors life on horseback, in the Arctic among the Eskimos, captaining a blue-water sailboat, crewing on an Alaskan commercial fishing boat, and living with the Amish where wisdom is till valued and life's solutions are intentionally kind. 

I have listened to patients' stories, learning the price of selfishness and the value of compassion, and reaffirmed that we are much more alike than different. Language, nationality, and even religion are meaningless distinctions when weighed against the human spirit. I have had the reassurance of nature with the changing seasons marking the passage of time.

Dr. Settevendemie lives in the log home he built in the forests of Montana with his wife, Kathleen, and his Andalusian mare, Bella.