BOB:  Even then, after I quit, they come see me, get my advice.  Or cause somebody to go out.  I did -- Beverly was after. 

Yeah, I kind of -- being a health aide, kind of hard for being health aide when you lose -- when you lose people.  You -- I mean, myself, I -- I think my -- I think myself I didn't do a good job on, you know, saving people.  It's kind of hard for health aides, I guess, all over the world losing a person.  To me, it was, something like that. 

MARLA:  Yeah.  And sometimes there's nothing you can really do. 

BOB:  Yeah.  Well, you knew what -- what was going to happen.  I mean, if the patient don't take his medication regularly, you know, medication is something you have to know for people to take their medication to save themself, get well.  Something like that.
 
MARLA:  Did you -- did you ever have -- were you ever a chemotherapy aide or did you ever help with people who had tuberculosis? 

BOB:  Tuberculosis?  Yeah.  Those doctors come around every two, three months were taking care of a lot of -- a lot of patients, I mean, a lot of people. 

Today is great.  I mean, still in all, I think health aide was -- I mean, today, very important to villages when you don't have a doctor around.  That's what you call when they say, too.  And have them meeting. 

That's the greatest thing that could happen to a lot of villages, to have a health aide, and training costs a lot of money to do it, but you're helping -- a health aide is training, I mean, to take care a lot of people.  And sometimes you save them right there, don't have to go to Fairbanks or a clinic.  Just the minor things. 

MARLA:  Right.