| Home |
| Interviews |
| Map |
| Photographs |
| Video |
| CHAP History |
| CHA Program Study |
| Project Background |
| Links |
 |
 |
Hannah Anderson, |
 Next Section |
|
| HANNAH: I had -- when I first started, I had a patient and a little girl. And I'm checking her out. You're trained to check them out before you do anything. Right? But you're also trained to get in touch with the doctor and make sure you're doing the right thing. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: Okay. So -- and in our manual, going by the book. So I check this girl out, this little girl. I can't remember how old she was. Five. And she's a state person, of course. But they were not -- they are not beneficiaries, but she's sick. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: And I'm seeing her. You know. And checked her all out and everything, and so -- and then I report her to the doctor. I went through my whole report, you know. And he says, well, what do you think you should do? And I said, amoxacillin? Well, I said, okay. You talk about being like... And so I treated her and you get her measurements and everything and advise the mother, give her the whole get in touch with me if the fever hasn't gone down, this and that. And you know, everything. I started her on antibiotics. And felt good. Except I felt a little like he could have talked nicer to me, and maybe I was already, you know, like -- I'm already -- well, he didn't perk me up, that's for sure. MARLA: Right. Bedside manner always will. HANNAH: Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, but I liked it, though. He was always right. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Yeah. He would -- Dr. James was always right. MARLA: And he was the person you talked to the most? HANNAH: Well, he was our head doctor at Chief Andrew Isaac then, you know. You got to talk to him quite a bit. Not if we can help it. MARLA: So that means -- HANNAH: He won't like that. MARLA: So that means that you won't -- you didn't have to call a doctor every time you saw a patient, only when you needed to get advice or when did you call the doctor? When did you have to call the doctor? HANNAH: Not every time. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: There were a lot of things that we took care of that we know, we follow up on, we know it will be okay. But this is a kid that's never had penicillin before. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: Or any of the cillins, and we know about that. And -- and she's not, you know, is not a -- not a little Native kid. She's -- and I kind of -- I felt like I didn't know them and I had to be really careful and do all, you know. Well, you do with everybody, but you do this more like I need to report this. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: Well, I would do it for -- for any other kid, too, if I wasn't -- with a little kid you want to be careful to start them on something who's never had any medicines like that before, they didn't know if she was allergic, the mother, we don't know. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: And that's one of the reasons I -- one of the big reasons I reported the whole thing because it -- it needs to -- it needs to be doctors. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: As it turned out, she was allergic. A couple of days later, the mother called me and she said, she's broken out with rash all over her, and I said, stop the medicine, I went down to see her and report her again. So we just took her off the penicillin, had to do something else. MARLA: And then she was okay? HANNAH: Uh-hum. She was okay. She grew up. When they left here, her mother said, you're the only doctor she's ever had. Yeah. MARLA: That's pretty great. HANNAH: Yeah. An adopted little girl. | |
Home | Interviews | Map | Photographs | Video | Program History | CHA Program Study | Project Background | Links | ©Copyright Information
Last updated 11-4-06
Last updated 11-4-06