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Transcript: Layton Lamsam


[Lamsam:]
I really thought about that, because it was sort of bothering me. I thought, you know, why can't you do both. Why can't you attend medical school and these things, and at the same time help out your community? So I really was searching for an answer to that, and I found actually a class that was offered by medical students and I took it, and it was about Pine Ridge Reservation and health disparities on that reservation. It just so happens that the medical students that put on that class also were beginning to shape and form a group called Akisnee [phonetic], which is sort of a group, an enterprise, if you will, that tries to tackle some of the health problems on Pine Ridge specifically in a holistic way.