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Rose Winkleman, |
| KAREN: Do you know anything else about some of the traditional practices that went on and how people combine that with Western medicine? ROSE: No, they didn't. No. I don't think that the -- I don't think the doctors and nurses wanted to do -- wanted us to do that. We had to go by the book. I remember sometime some people, some woman was there that she was -- she was a -- she wasn't a Native, she was a woman there that she believed in this other -- other kind of stuff. But they didn't want nothing to do with her. They didn't want her helping in the clinic or nothing. Because it wasn't -- it was something that they couldn't -- they couldn't allow -- the Public Health nurse couldn't allow that. Mixing traditional. So... KAREN: And how do you feel about it? ROSE: I didn't know. I wasn't much exposed to it. It didn't bother me none. I wasn't exposed to that stuff much. I just raised my kids. I raised my kids and took care of them the way I learned. Everybody learns how to do those things. You know. KAREN: Right. What kind of equipment did the -- did they provide you as a health aide? ROSE: Well, when you first take your training, you get the blood pressure cuff and stethoscope. That's the beginning. And as you got more training, you got more equipment. That you could use. Because you had training to use it. Offhand, I can't say what they were. Just something automatically you did, and nothing that... KAREN: What about medicines? What kind of medicines did you have available? ROSE: Oh, yeah. I got all my medications from Anchorage. Every month I'd order. KAREN: Do you remember what kinds you had? ROSE: Everything that they have now . 20 years ago when I quit, it's no different than it is now, I don't think. KAREN: Uh-hum. But when you just -- ROSE: The antibiotics and -- KAREN: Yeah. ROSE: -- everything else. KAREN: So when you first started, what -- what were the differences between when you first started and when you retired? ROSE: In what? KAREN: In -- ROSE: In the medications? KAREN: Just in being a health aide, like different medicines, different equipment, different program? ROSE: Well, the difference was the training. More you learn -- more schooling you got, the more you learned and the more you were responsible for. | |
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