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| MARLA: And where was the main CHAP office that you were talking to? NOLITA: Barrow. MARLA: Okay. NOLITA: In Barrow. MARLA: And so that's North Slope Borough -- NOLITA: Yes. MARLA: -- is managing? Have you also worked for TCC? NOLITA: Yeah. When I worked in Kaltag, Huslia, and Ruby, I worked for TCC. MARLA: What's the big difference between -- or is there a difference? NOLITA: Outside the pay? MARLA: Yeah. Pay is different? NOLITA: The pay is different because the cost of living on the North Slope Borough is a lot higher than the cost of living in TCC. MARLA: Okay. NOLITA: But it's really not too much different. MARLA: So you have to do the same trainings and -- and the health care is essentially the same, and you have the equipment that you need? NOLITA: Yeah. MARLA: Both -- both places, or both -- NOLITA: Both areas, yeah. MARLA: Yeah. I just wondered if there was, because there's so many different -- different chapters, that I wondered if there was -- NOLITA: Well, like, if you walk around the clinic here, you'll see how big it is. The size of the Anaktuvuk clinic would be the size of a subregion clinic in TCC. Subregion meaning there's like -- like -- like, for instance, the Galena subregion, this would be about the size of the Galena subregion clinic. And then you'd have other clinics outside that depend on you for help, like Kaltag, Nulato, Ruby, Galena, Huslia, they are all the clinics outside the subregion. MARLA: So if they need to, they would come to Galena. NOLITA: Yeah. MARLA: For additional care or -- NOLITA: Or help. Yeah. MARLA: This is a really big clinic. There's at least three -- three exam rooms? NOLITA: Yeah. MARLA: And the itinerant apartments in the back, is that where you would stay? NOLITA: Yeah. MARLA: When you were travelling around? And is it sort of this -- so you'd be in the clinic? NOLITA: Yeah. I wouldn't have to leave the clinic. MARLA: So you're really on call 24. NOLITA: Yeah. MARLA: Hard to get a break, then. NOLITA: Yeah. But the -- there's other people that come in that are itinerants, as well, so they take call. MARLA: So that first week in Nuiqsut, was there anything that stands out in your mind besides it being really crowded? NOLITA: Nuiqsut, let's see, we worked a longer hour. I mean, North Slope Borough works 10 and a half, TCC works 6. So it was longer hours for me. But it was more interesting. MARLA: Why? NOLITA: Well, every new place you go, you have a -- you kind of see different medical problems that you don't normally see if you're just one place all the time. So it was more of a learning experience because you get to learn more about different kind of illnesses or procedures that may be going on or, you know, or if someone had a certain procedure, you get to know all the kind of labs that you have to draw weekly, monthly, blah-de-blah. So it was -- it's more of a learning experience to be an itinerant than -- some people think it's a pain in the butt. | |
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