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Lillian Walker

H2004-17-09, Part 2
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Lillian Walker talks with Karen Brewster on August 24, 2005 at her home in Anchorage, Alaska about...

1) Qualifications of a health aide, in particular of herself, and why she was selected as the health aide.
health aide -- qualifications\ health aide -- selection\ confidentiality -- respect\ patients -- relationship with\ patients -- age of\ patients -- variety\ patient -- adolescent\ adoption --story of\ adoption -- reconciliation\ job -- benefits of\ helping others\ travel\ job -- drawbacks\ schedule -- long hours|

2) Advice she would give to people interested in becoming a health aide.
health aide -- becoming\ health aide -- characteristics\ cheerful\ caring\ encouraging\ supportive\ social services -- story of\ Walker, Lillian -- daughters\ daughters -- goals\ daughters -- support of\ daughters -- jobs\ Walker, Mary\ teacher\ Walker, Vita\ health aide\ work -- child advocate\ goals -- professional\ job -- content with\ health aide -- training|

3) Training she received as a health aide, and the influences of narcotics in her community after she retired as a health aide.
health aide -- training\ training -- effectiveness\ training -- instructors\ doctor\ nurses\ psychologist\ [??, Cheryl] -- instructor\ doctors -- relationship with\ doctors -- cooperation from\ communication\ Kettleson, Diane -- public health nurse\ disease -- sexually transmitted\ disease -- herpes\ suicide -- story of\ molestation -- story of\ teacher\ youth\ suicide -- rate of\ Holy Cross\ narcotics -- influence of\ narcotics -- arrival of\ narcotics -- increase of\ narcotics -- sale of\ teachers\ cocaine -- first incidence of\ cocaine -- story of|

4) The main reason she became a health aide, and reflections on how her childhood background provided her the ability to care for others.
health aide -- requirements of\ health aide -- characteristics of\ health aide -- caring\ pharmacists -- story of\ clinic -- survey\ pharmacists -- non-Alaskan\ pharmacists -- responding to\ self-esteem\ job -- importance of\ childhood -- orphan\ family -- care of\ siblings -- care of\ family -- duties\ lifestyle -- subsistence|

5) Lessons learned from being a health aide.
health aide -- learned from\ symptoms -- understanding\ symptoms -- diagnosis\ male patient -- medical story\ voice -- hoarse\ alcohol -- effects of\ disease -- cancer\ Woods, Irena -- traditional teachings\ medicine -- traditional\ healing\ family\ traditional healing -- story of\ hands -- skin infection\ modern medicine -- effectiveness\treatment -- traditional\ plant -- use of\ plant -- “caithluk”\ hands -- cured\ materials -- medical\ leaves -- boiling of\ leaves -- application of\ traditional healing -- influences of\ traditional healing -- use of\ traditional healing -- benefits|

6) A story of when she successfully cared for a patient that suffered third degree burns.
patient -- burn\ burn -- treatment\ medicine -- anti-biotic\ medicine -- Basitracin\ medicine -- effectiveness\ patient -- child\ burn -- degree of\ burn -- caring for\ towels -- moistened\ skin -- treatment\ gauze -- use of\ burn -- blisters\ blisters -- treatment\ treatment -- success of\ medicine -- Neosporin\ patient -- appreciation|

7) Her personal beliefs about not being partial to patients, but treating all patients equally no matter their ethnicity.
patients -- care of\ patients -- preferential treatment\ clinics\ preferential treatment -- reason for\ beliefs -- personal\ patients -- treatment of\ equality\ villages -- non-partial\ clinics -- village\ clinics -- access\ patient -- leg injury\ doctor\ treatment -- refusal\ health aide -- treatment\ doctor -- reported\ patient -- appreciation|

8) Her own healing experiences using prayer and chiropractic treatments.
childhood\ Holy Cross Mission\ Mission -- influences of\ prayers -- purpose\ spinal injury -- story of\ chiropractor -- benefits of\ cancer patient -- story of\ diet -- restriction\ cancer -- survival\ doctor -- surgeon\ cancer -- treatment\ Lillian -- back pain\ miracle healer -- story of\ healers\ doctor\ Holy Cross\ healers -- use of\ treatment -- using prayer\ back pain -- end of\ patients -- needs of\ patients -- trust\ patients -- stories of|