I started m week of training at the clinic Monday. It was a slow week because they had no provider, so no one to order blood tests.
However, during my first hours there, we had a huge emergency, a snow machine accident with a teenager, and I got to see how an emergency is treated when you have no doctors or anything, just health aides and teenage first responders.
This is the article:
Read me!
He spent 8 hours in the clinic with no morphine, screaming. The medevac plane came, but they brought no supplies, so hey left and came back. It was madness. As the article says, his dad was withh im on the snow machine, but left as soon as the snow machine hit the SUV because he had been drinking. He left his kid bleeding in the snow and did not even call the ambulance. A health aide was on lunch walking and saw him.
The Dragon Slayers are teenager who are first responders and ride with the ambulance when there is an emergency because there are so few trained people. They brought him in, along with the health aide. As far as I know, he lived. Read the article.
I learned how to run all the machines and learned the computer program. I left Friday afternoon and made it home without any weather delay.
I like Aniak. It is pretty and they have trees and cars.