[optacon-l] Re: Stories from Non-Optacon Users
- From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:35:09 -0400
Catherine and list, here's a job/Optacon story. When I worked as a medical
secretary in the Surgical Pathology Department at Hermann Hospital in
Houston, I could not have held that job without the Optacon, which I used
for:
Lining in up typewriter and adding diagnoses on file cards;
reading patient information on forms to be put on additional pages or to be
entered in log book;
looking up diagnostic codes;
Using mailing file to send reports out to doctors
Getting file cards in alphabetical order for filing
making corrections or revisions in reports
This was about 30 years ago, so some things have changed since then. Also I
used a variety of print medical books.
In God We Trust,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Stories from Non-Optacon Users
> Hi, Linda and list
> It's good of we can gather stories of the problems faced by non-Optacon
> users which they might wish to solve if they could. It's also important to
> find tasks particularly on jobs that an Optacon could perform that cannot
> be done at all by the worker without one. An example would be photocopying
> independently or verifying that print labels were done correctly.
> Neurological sensitivity is necessary to use an Optacon. It is unfortunate
> that many diabetics at least on some days would be unable to use one. It's
> unfortunate in the same way that a person with severe hearing loss cannot
> use a talking book player. However, a great many people lose their sight
> to causes other than diabetes and I still think that this is a legitimate
> target group of potential Optacon users.
> The more stories we can gather and the more unmet needs we can uncover,
> the better the chances are that an Optacon might still be in the future.
> Catherine
>
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