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Duke University Medical Center, InterGom
June 1965
National Forum on Hospital and Health
Affairs Evidences a Concern for the Future
A two-day National Forum on Hos
pital and llealth Affairs was held at
Duke Medical Center on May 21-22.
The forum was financed by the Duke
Endowment.
In attendance were nearly 100 of
the nation’s foremost hospital author
ities. According to Ray B. Brown,
director of the Duke Graduate Pro
gram in Hospital Administration and
one of the hosts for the Porum, the
invited guests and speakers were per
sons who are playing the key roles in
the development of national hospital
patterns today.
“Medical, economic, political and
other social forces are causing re
definitions of the role, practices and
organization of the hospital,” said
Brown.
It was the aim of the Forum to
Three Doctors Win
Golden Apples
Three DUMC professors were re
cently selected to receive the annual
Golden Apple Awards presented by
their students at the 1965 Student-
Faculty Night.
Voted the three best examples of
teacher-scientist-physician were Dr.
Duncan Hetherington, professor of
anatomy, Dr. George Baylin, profes
sor of radiology and Dr. Brunildo
Hererro, junior assistant resident in
medicine.
North to Chair Tenn.
Anesthesiology Dept.
Dr. AVilliam C. North, an associate
professor at Duke University School
of Medicine, has been named chair
man of the Anesthesiology Depart
ment of the University of Tennessee
School of Medicine in Memphis.
The new department head will also
serve as chief of anesthesiology at the
City of Memphis hospitals when his
appointment becomes effective July 1.
identify and define the best way to
operate a group of hospitals under
single management. Included in the
forms of organization and manage
ment discussed were the following:
satellite, chain, vertically integrated,
single campus-diverse ownership,
local hospital authority, Catholic, and
Kaiser.
According to Brown, the continu
ing purpose of the Forum will be to
examine each year one of the current
major problems or developments in
the hospital-health field.
“This whole movement,” observed
Brown, “is focused on how to over
come the small-scale size of hospi
tals. ’ ’
He likened the movement to that
which has erased small grocery stores,
hotels, motels and industrial firms in
recent years. And he sees a similar
chain-system coming for hospitals.
The papers presented during the
Forum will be published in a Proceed
ing that will be distributed nationally
to the hospital-health field.
Dr. Becker to Head
International Society
Dr. R. Frederick Becker has been
named president-elect of an inter
national society of neuroanatomists
and neurologists.
An Associate Pro
fessor of Anatomy in
the Duke University
School of Medicine,
Dr. Becker was elect
ed to the post at the
annual meeting of the
.^^.^_Cajal Club in Miami,
Florida. The Cajal Club membership
is composed of some 200 anatomists
and neurologists from the United
States and foreign countries.
Members are elected to the honor
ary organization. Dr. Becker is a
charter member of the club, which
formed in 1948.
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by Charles II. Fkenzel
As another academic year comes to
a close and over 200 medical center
students receive their “sheepskins,”
it seems appropriate that we share
with pride their accomplishments.
The primary purpose of the medical
center is to educate the future mem
bers of the health professions—it is
our reason for existence. Whether
this is accomplished well or poorly
depends, of course, to a large degree
upon the faculty of the programs, but
of major importance, too, is the en
vironment of the service and research
functions of the medical center and
the efforts of the numerous staff mem
bers responsible primarily for these
facets of our total program.
Every member of the medical cen
ter staff plays some part in the prep
aration of these students for the
important health profession they have
chosen. It is necessary that we recog
nize our part in this primary ob
jective of our medical center and do
it well so that we may in truth share
in each student’s accomplishment.
This summer another staff ward at
the rear of the hospital w'ill be
renovated and air conditioned. The
continuous heavy demand for our ser
vices does not permit the closing of
more than one ward per year for the
six to eight weeks it requires to com
plete the renovation.