You can see in the pictures the pale tan building..that was my clinic. I was the only phsycian there in months so my job was to see the chronic patients...DM, HTN, RA. Occassionally I would see acutes as well. I slept in the back of the clinic on a little bunkbed, apparently it is haunted as well, as told to me by the janitor. There was no working toilet..only a HONEYPOT (why is a bucket with a hole to pee in called a honeypot, I have no idea. There was nothing sweet about it!) May I never have to use a bucket for a bathroom again. There is only one functional shower in the village, $3 a shower, only opened from 11-4pm. I would shower during lunch and everyone laughed that I wanted to shower daily. The patients themselves were very sweet and I was assigned an Eskimo name. DR SHICK SHICK (shick shick means ground squirrel).
My patients were pretty much related to all my 3 health aides. I met their fathers, aunts, grandmother and everyone else. As far as meds and such, I had a few different antibiotics, some steroids creams, tylenol, advil...and if I needed anything more it had to be sent from Nome and will take a few days. I didn't have to medivac anyone into Nome for further treatment, but did complete some referrals. I treated some COPD, DM, HTN, tooth abscesses, rashes, otitis, psych, pregnancy..all in a days work. I had to do my own vitals, given my own vaccines, injections, joint injections...This is family medicine!
Unfortunately, as I said before it was very foggy most of the 4 days. I wasn't really able to see Russia and was disappointed.
The white igloo looking building was once the clinic. I would love to work there. The kids in town told me it is haunted. Is everything haunted?
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