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BARBARA: I worked in the clinic here where the elderly people live right now. They had a clinic there, and then Yakutat Kwan, they got a clinic for us, you know. It's a real nice clinic. And we moved there like about three or four years ago.

KAREN: Oh.

BARBARA: And after I saw, you know, all the -- all the space we have up in our clinic now, and then the space that we had to, you know, work in at the other clinic, I just wondered how we did it.

KAREN: And when did you retire?

BARBARA: I retired in October, on the 7th of October.

KAREN: Just this last October, 2005?

BARBARA: Yes. Yes. Uh-hum.

KAREN: So you had a few years to use the new clinic?

BARBARA: Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was really good, too. And we had -- we have, like, two, three exam rooms, you know, and our offices that we had, our own, you know.

KAREN: Wow.

BARBARA: And an ER. And it's pretty well equipped for emergencies, you know.

KAREN: And there's a permanent PA here, as well?

BARBARA: Yes. Uh-hum. It was a little different starting to work with a PA here because I got used to just working with the doctor. You know.
And then -- it was good, though, because I learned a lot of things from the PA, you know, that I didn't learn in our training. So that was good working with -- with them. And I probably would -- I probably would still be working yet if it wasn't for my hip, you know.

KAREN: Yeah.

BARBARA: Because I couldn't walk good.

KAREN: Yeah.

BARBARA: And -- but otherwise, I would have kept right on working. Because I really love my job.