KAREN: So, what was the hardest thing for you about being a health aide?
AGNES: Hardest thing is taking patients out to the plane. We used to have to call somebody to volunteer and take them out. Not having a doctor in town.
It would have been terrible if we had a really bad accident like a plane crash, you know, terrible. But they did have -- some people had training in that, I guess, in case a jet crashed out here. And there was a lot of things we did too that we could have got fired, but everything always turned out okay.
KAREN: Like what? Do you have an example?
AGNES: Pregnant women that didn't come in for their checkup. Crazy kids. Girls that wanted abortion and they didn't want to go through the clinic. Suicidal. I had one girl that slashed her wrists. She didn't do it hard, just enough to bleed I guess. It was while she was drinking.
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