Oral History:
Interview#: OH025
Interviewee: William Dettwyler
Interviewer: Barbara Dittman, Anne Hiller Clark
Date: 06/10/2011
Location: Shaw Historical Library
Length: 1:06:38
Subjects: Klamath Falls, Murder Story
| Time Index | Topic | |
| 0:00 - 2:40 | Interview documentation process. | |
| 2:40 - 6:18 | Introductions; Family history; Childhood education; Working in Family farm. | |
| 6:18 - 11:00 | Interest in medical technology; Work history; OTI exhibit; Medical Lab technician at OTI. | |
| 11:00 - 14:00 | Working for Klamath County Hospital as a Tissue technician while attending OTI; OTI Classes. | |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Standardising medical classes at OTI; Teaching Phlebotomy. | |
| 17:00 - 23:30 | College taught by experience; OTI medical lab work. | |
| 23:30 - 25:30 | Lab Technology and the changes over the years. | |
| 25:30 - 30:30 | Extra-curricular activities while going to OTI; Mostly working around Klamath Falls; Involvement at OTI. | |
| 30:30 - 35:00 | Started a card file system in the Index at OTI; Creating an Annual. | |
| 35:00 - 38:00 | Moving to Portland and was in listed to the Army; Working in a Kansas Hospital; Obama history. | |
| 38:00 - 39:30 | Military Prison flue shots. | |
| 39:30 - 43:40 | Coming back to OTI to do another Annual; Friends, and teachers at OTI. | |
| 43:40 - 47:50 | Studying Tapeworms; Parasites history; Water treatment; Aloha aloha worm; Microbiology at OTI; | |
| 47:50 - 50:15 | Involvement with medical procedure and medical coding; Medical tests; State of Oregon Welfare Consultant for medical coding. | |
| 50:15 - 55:00 | William family, working while raising a family; Being in medical coding in the beginning; Medical Coding problems. | |
| 55:00 - 1:00:30 | Word of advice to students and his own family; Small personal stories; Medical Field. | |
| 1:00:30 - 1:06:38 | Wrote a book and his sister is in it; She was an X-Ray technician; Hitch-hiking home; Working in Bend at a Memorial Clinic. |
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