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| MARLA: And I imagine you must have seen a lot of changes in what was in the clinic from when it started and as far as medical equipment. HANNAH: Oh, yeah. MARLA: Can you talk about that? HANNAH: Medical equipment and -- MARLA: Or even medical advances, you know -- HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: -- that you've seen, lots of changes. HANNAH: I guess my first one was like faxing our materials, you know. I wasn't really into that. It took awhile to catch on to that type of thing. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Because like I say, I had not had a lot of formal education. And it took work, a lot of work for me to, you know, to get it. MARLA: Yeah. And so that was like faxing medical records or -- HANNAH: No. Not medical records. Or did we? I can't remember. MARLA: I just wonder what you would -- what you would fax. Like a doctor's prescription or -- HANNAH: What were we faxing? We faxed -- I think mostly reports and stuff like that. You know. Like you're reporting -- how did it get started anyway? I can't remember. Anyway, I remember using this fax machine right before I retired. You go into computers, I'm gone. Yeah. We got fax machines. And I don't like it. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: Okay. After being a health aide for a while, so years and years. Jessie Renner was our -- I can't remember her title, but she took care of health aides. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: She made sure -- you know, we called Jessie for everything. You know, whatever we want to know or where we get something new, call Jessie Renner, she'll walk us through it and stuff like that. MARLA: And where was she based? HANNAH: In Chief Andrew Isaac. MARLA: Okay. In Fairbanks? HANNAH: In Fairbanks Health Service. And so we all got all the -- all the health clinics got fax machines. And I guess there's a problem then with -- back then with power surge or whatever that is. It goes up and down or whatever. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: And a lot of the fax machines was going -- having problems in some of the villages, evidently. And this place here, having people like the light and power people, when we got our fax machine here, in Evansville, they checked it out and they said you need to -- they set up our fax machine because they are electric people. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: And they go, you need a surge thing. MARLA: Like a surge protector? HANNAH: Yeah. Protector. Because you're going to otherwise have problems with this. So I didn't -- didn't have problems with my fax machine. But evidently, all the other clinics, some of the clinics, I mean, not all of the other clinics but some of the clinics was having some problems, evidently. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: And so, of course, when Jessie Renner sent out a -- she send us out notices, you have to send it to all of the clinics. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: Whether you're having problems or not. So I got my notice. Do not send in your fax machine, there's nothing wrong with it. You've been sending all your -- I've been getting too many fax machines in here and there's nothing wrong with them, send them all back, you guys take care of your fax machines. And I'm going, I don't have problems with my fax machine, but I was looking through, sitting there at the clinic, looking through a magazine, and there's a cartoon down here saying there's mountains and stuff and there's puffs of smoke coming out over these things hills and stuff, you know. Down here it says -- two people standing, one said, what's the message of the smoke, puff, puff? MARLA: Right. Smoke signals. HANNAH: And say fax machine something. MARLA: Burns up. HANNAH: Burned up or something. I cut that out and sent it to Jessie. MARLA: I bet she got a kick out of that. HANNAH: She got a big kick out of it. She said, I still have it. I have it sitting right in front of me, she said. I wasn't being -- you know, I just was kind of -- I didn't say -- I didn't have any problems or anything. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: It wasn't that, it was just that, okay, we'll listen to you, Jessie, we'll do as you say was my thing. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: But still I had to -- MARLA: It's funny. I think I've seen that cartoon. HANNAH: Okay. What did it say exactly? MARLA: I think it was, yeah, the fax was broken or the fax was burning. HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: So she -- so she was the one who really implemented sort of this new way of communicating with each other. HANNAH: Yeah. Uh-hum. Absolutely. MARLA: And at Chief Andrew Isaac? HANNAH: Uh-hum. And she coordinated all our workshops and stuff. MARLA: And so when you say "workshops," does that mean you had to go to Fairbanks for workshops? HANNAH: Yeah. To Fairbanks. Subregional ones we went to, once to Anchorage. And we had -- I mean all the subregions. And they all do that. MARLA: What kind of workshops were they? HANNAH: Everything. MARLA: Like specific diseases or -- HANNAH: Yeah. And a lot of talk on what's new, what's coming up and all. And a lot of workshops for -- include a lot of -- well, we had a lot of ETT classes. MARLA: What's ETT stand for? HANNAH: Emergency -- ETT, emergency -- emergency technical training. ETT. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: It's like EMT. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: Okay. MARLA: So it was like training you for traumas? HANNAH: Yeah. Traumas and things. That was a good one because we live right here on the airport. MARLA: Yeah. Yeah. And I imagine every now and then there might be -- HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: -- some plane-related -- HANNAH: Yeah, we had some already. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Uh-hum. | |
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