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Duke Hospital, InterCom
Addition Soon to be
In Full Use
Duke Hospital’s new $3,386,000 ad
dition will be in virtnally full use by
the end of this summer.
Portions of the seven-story addi
tion have already been opened, while
other areas await only finishing
touches, installation of equipment
and staffing.
Four of the 10 new operating
rooms are now being used. Most of
the Medical Private Diagnostic Clinic
and part of the Surgical P.D.C. are
in use, although new furnishings for
these areas have not yet arrived.
An intensive nursing unit for pa
tients who need special care and one
medical and one surgical floor of pa
tient rooms are in operation.
The Out-Patient Department, which
fills three floors of the air-conditioned
addition, is scheduled to be occupied
in late August. Designed to reduce
waiting time and provide faster and
more efficient medical service, the new
O.P.D. will be able to serve an aver
age of 500 out-patients per day—
more than twice as many as existing
facilities were designed to accommo
date.
Research on Aging
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The proposed center will be based
administratively in the Duke Univer
sity School of Medicine. Existing
laboratories and other facilities in the
Medical School and Duke Hospital
will be used for the center’s program.
Also, additional research space is now
being prepared in a new seven-story
addition to Duke Hospital and in a
wing being added to the Bell Medical
Research Building at Duke.
Commenting on the selection of
Duke University for establishment of
the pilot research center. Dr. Burney
said that ‘ ‘ in this state and this insti
tution, there is a climate of opinion,
of acceptance, wherein the ideal of
transcending institutional and politi
cal boundaries in the search for com
mon solutions of common problems
may flourish.”
Dr. Busse, who outlined plans for
the center, explained that a Panel on
Interdisciplinary Research will deter
mine the research policies of the cen
ter.
Duke personnel serving with Dr.
Busse on this steering panel will be
Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., chairman
of the department of medicine; Dr.
Philip Handler, chairman of the bio
chemistry department; Dr. Barnes
Woodhall, professor of neurosurgery,
and Dr. Eliot H. Rodnick, chairman
of the psychology department. Ex
officio members will be Dr. Paul M.
Gross, vice-president and dean of the
University, and Dean W. C. Davison
of the Duke School of Medicine.
Specific aims of the center, which is
expected to be in operation within
the next 18 months, include encour
agement and support of fundamental
research concerned with the phenome
non and health problems of aging;
training of investigators for research
in the problems of aging; and devel
opment of a source of scientific knowl
edge in the field of aging for state
and local government as well as for
private groups and individuals.
Among research projects being con
sidered as part of the center’s pro
gram is establishment of an interdis
ciplinary team involving psychiatry,
internal medicine, surgery, nursing,
psychology, social work and a con
sultant in sociology. This team will
be concerned with alleviating the
health problems of aging, study of
preventive and therapeutic techni({ues
in this field, and determination of the
ideal composition of such an interdis
ciplinary health team.
Other contemplated projects in
clude work in the field of changes in
the cardiovascular system, the central
nervous system, mental health, en
docrinology, and biochemistry. Also
attention will be given to studies con
cerned with the impact of legal, eco
nomic and social factors upon the
health of the aged.
This V That
Bacteriology
Jane Parker, former secretary to
Dr. David T. Smith, will be married
on Oct. 12 to Bill Smith, who is prac
ticing law in Goldsboro.
Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps has recently
been employed as technician for Dr.
Conant in the Mycology Lab.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Willett (Dr.
Hilda Pope Willett) have moved into
a new home on Galax Drive, Laurel
Acres, in Raleigh.—Martha Hadley,
Surgery
Mrs. Barbara McCauley has re
signed as Supervisor of the Surgical
Stenographic Pool and w’ill move to
Burlington in August where her hus
band will be enrolled at Elon College.
Mrs. Betsy Barton has been promoted
to Supervisor of the Pool and the
two new employees there are Mari
anne Stamper of Durham and Flora
Waddell of Hillsboro.
Dr. Glenn Young completed the
surgical residency June 30, and is
now a member of the senior surgical
stafl'.
Mrs. Teresa Wiethe is a new em
ployee in Dr. Banks Anderson’s office
replacing Mrs. Ann Wells.
Mrs. Marylou Morgan is a recent
employee in the Surgical Resident’s
Office replacing Mrs. Sylvia Kottler
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Picnic Pictures
The annual hospital picnics, held
this year on July 18 and 20, were
most successful, thanks to the ex
cellent committees in charge. We ’re
indebted to Supt. Porter for the
excellent pictures of the staff pic
nic and are sorry to say that diffi
culties with the film prevented our
including the employees picnic
photographs. Virginia Miller, a
maid in the Urology Clinic and
Effie Fuller, a Housekeeping De
partment maid, were lucky win
ners of the hams.