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Siletz
Community
Health
Medicine Talk
Clinic
Students Work at Clinic this Summer
I worked as the Physical Therapy aide/
receptionist in the Siletz Clinic. I scheduled
appointments, answered phones, prepared
charts for appointments, and did laundry. I’ve
also worked in the Medical Records
Department, where I got to work with the
medical providers. My favorite part was
doing special projects in Medical Records,
like helping purge inactive charts and
working on RPMS (Resource and Patient
Management System). I would be willing to
do it again because it was a good learning
experience for me.
Jamie Mason
Ninth Grade/Toledo High
While working at the Siletz Clinic in
Patient Accounts, I learned many things that
I didn’t know before, like how to properly file,
billing, sending and receiving the clinic’s mail,
answering and transferring phone calls, and
working on the RPMS system. I think
working here has been a good experience.
If I got the chance to, I would do it again
next year.
Apples Lane
10th Grade/Toledo High
Since I came to the Siletz Clinic, I have
helped a lot of people. I’ve filed papers,
checked in RPMS if prior patients had paid
their bills for Marlene. I inventoried many
items that needed to be logged in the Excel
database for Sunshine (my supervisor),
tagged computers and filled out inventory
forms needed for the clinic’s new computers
for Paul, and I helped Charlie with yard work.
I also took out hard drives and installed
sound cards in computers for Paul, helped
move computers from the clinic to the A&D
TLC building, and helped him hook up some
Tips for Lice
Prevention
1. The key to prevention is averting a full
lice outbreak. Check household
members weekly. Make it a part of
regular grooming habits.
2. Caution children against sharing coats,
hats, combs, hair clips, headphones,
and other personal items.
3. For a younger child, supply a personal
blanket or mat for day care or school,
or make sure they are cleaned
between students.
4. Make sure your child uses his or her
own sleeping bag on overnights.
5. Wash hair daily. This may dislodge or
damage some lice, but mainly it provides
a natural opportunity to check your
Gyrrad Hibdon
of the computers, too. But my favorite thing
was installing, configuring, and, testing
Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This is a
software program that allows you to talk to
your computer, have it type exactly what
you say, and follow your voice commands.
After I mastered the program, I taught Paul
and Apples how to use Dragon
NaturallySpeaking.
If I get the chance to work here next
year, I would gladly do it! It was a lot of fun
and I learned how to do many new things.
Working for the tribe was everything I
thought it would be, plus a lot of fun and I
learned how to do a lot more than I thought I
would. Fixing computers is definitely
something I would like to do for a living
(when I am an adult).
Gyrrad Hibdon
Ninth Grade/Toledo High
child’s hair.
6. Notify camps, schools, church groups,
and the parents of your child’s friends if
your child becomes infested.
7. Most lice cases are not incuned at
school. Be aware of other possible
sources of reinfestation, including visits
to other homes, churches, or dubs.
8. Remember: Do not use head lice killing
products to prevent head toe. Do not
use lice killing products more then twice
in a 1O-day period. Contact your health
care provider for advice if lice are still
present. Do not fumigate or spray tor
prevention or treatment. This is not
effective and is a health hazard. Do ask
your health care provider tor guidance if
the person being treated tor bead toe is
pregnant, under 2 years old, has a
chronic health problem such as
seizures or asthma, or has been treated
within the last seven days.
The Tobacco Industry ... In Its Own Words
“It is important to know as much as
possible about teen-age smoking patterns
and attitudes. Today’s teen-ager is
tomorrow’s potential regular customer, and
the overwhelming majority of smokers begin
to smoke while in their teens ... It is during
the teen-age years that the initial brand
choice is made. At least a part of the success
of Marlboro Red during its most rapid growth
period was because it became the brand of
choice among teen-agers who then stuck
with it as they grew older... We will no longer
be able to rely on a rapidly increasing pool
of teen-agers from which to replace smokers
lost through normal attrition ... Because of
our high share of the market among the
youngest smokers, Philip Morris will suffer
more than the other companies from the
decline
in
the
number
of
teen-age smokers.”
Myron E. Johnston
Philip Morris researcher
Stated in 1981
Tobacco Free Times: June/July 2000
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