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h pase'two CHAPEL HILL NEWS LEADER Dr. bunnagan's Decision 'Look^ Magazine Features Piece By Local M.D. On 'Why I Stopped Being A Family Doctor' White Cross News Let'er By Mrs. Edmund Strowd “’Why I Stopped Being A Fa-mi ly Doftor/' an article by Dr. Will- l-j iam A. Dunnagan of the Memorial I? Ho.spital staff, explains just what the title implies in the issue of Look magazine that was delivered to local new'sstands this morning. Dr. Dunnagan and his family moved here from Clayton in Jan uary, when he Joined the Memorial Hospital .staff for three years of re.-^idency in the Department of Radiology under Dr. Ernest Wiood. A native of Winston-Salem he attended the University -before and after World War II and was graduat&d from th« University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1951. Following a year of intern ship in Detroit he entered private He is the By WILLIAM A. DUMNAGAN, M.D. | (Condensed From "Look” , , Several girls and boys of this 1 have been practicing general j conimunAy are attending FHA and .■ ■- 11 camps at W'hite Lake this week. Those attending are Carol Bynum, Sheila Dawson, Anne Morrow, Frances Strowd, Billie W^aync Andrews Wayne Womble and Clayton Lloyd. DR. WILLIAM A. dunnagan medicine in a typical small town in the Soutn for three years.-The townsi-eppie have been splendid to me and tj my wife and four young children, W’e have made liielong friends'. I have earned a good’ living, in spite'of all thus, 1 am giving up being a family doc- lur to enter a specialized field of medicine. The reasons I’m quitting ex plain, I Liink, why an official of a n.r.tionai mediCail association said recently, "One of our biggest pichlems is placing doctors in small towns, and gettin'g Them to s:.ag there,” T-iere are my reasons for decid ing that 1 have had enough: 1 have too- -n-umy. paitients to treat each one adeqmtely. Like Gordon Neville and Nancy Car- 'son gave a hay ride and water- J melon slicing Saturday nignt lor Kermit Lloyd and Leonard Cheek, I \vhp, are at home on two-weeks' ■ leave from the Air Force. They ^ arc stationed in lllino.s. ■ practice in Clayton brother of Claude Dunnagan, edi- tor of a publication for Gravely Ur- Uunnagan said, after -he read Sanatorium, to whom he attribulecl several medical pieces'm this ma"- . - a ereat share of the credit for azine. He sent the magazine a bnei many rural physicians. I have oi miWicatinn of his article in -Look.- | outline of his story idea last fall,' ten treated 40, 50, or 60 patients Dr Dunnagan noted that his; and they telephoned him the next in one da.v. Under' this kind of cnlv background for writing vva,s day to follow- it up. , pressure, no physician can give a’ course under Phillips Russell; During his last week of prac. each patient good service. His of the UXCt journalism faculty.: tice in Clayton this past winter, I practice becomes sort of high-class and several pieces which he has a writer and photographer from iirst aid—and not so high-class, had nnhlished in profe.ssional; Look practically lived with him, g, times. A compromLse wiith qual- journals. However, his bent fori the doctor recalled. The writing the literary seems not to be lim-iof the -Look- magazine article ited to writing in his field, for he ^ represented many hours of revis- has also written a liumiber of un-' ion, checking, and re-checking published childrens stories which j authorities, Dr. Dunnagan are greatly enjoyed by their o^js^jd.' A condensed version of this Children-a girl and three ’’Oys. | adjoining The high pressure existence or; • ... ity in an effort to serve' all com ers is unfair to 'the patient and Irustrating to the doctor, no mat ter how energetic he may be. I don’t have time to keep abreavi of new medical divcoverie;=!. I don’t have enough time fo^- home life and civic uetiv/ities. •William Eid O'Daniel, son of ! Mr. and Mrs. .lohnson O'Daniel, is home un furlough from the armed forces. i Mrs. Walter Lloyd and Mrs. | ■Tohnny Lloyd gave a stori^ shower Saturday night in the Orange I Chapel Church basement, for Mrs. [ Car.son Lloyd. The large number j of gnests preseiil enjoyed amusing; games and refreshments. j The high pressure existence or; - . . n ,, v- ' general practicioner gave himj columns of this issue pf the News towns the idea to write the Look article, j Leader. ! and, rural communities liave 24- Ready-Made Name Awaiting Sired By Frozen Semenf Calf Arrives On Friday The 13th Some people tirnk of Friday the the case is placed in a deep freeze 13th as being unlucky, but a little I unit. In this manner semen is at calf born on the Guernsdel Farm i a constant temperature of 80 to 85 on Friday the 13', h of July has degrees below zero. Semen has every right to feel that Friday i been kept alive by this process for the i3th-. is a luckv day. I as long as 12 months'. A variation This calf, born to - Guernsdel j f “Lt rnf vhalitv i'rincess.Fem, and owned by Dr. 1 dbwn will destroy the v.talilj of H. C. Carr of the Gu ns-del Farm. I semem was sired by Bourncca!' ^^axim s' and, rural communities have 24- haur clinics makes the general practioner subject to call at any hour of the day or night. Many of my billa go unpaid. (’an a good doctor also be a good businessman? 1 believe he has to be or he cannot survive in our The Orange Chapel MYF girls j and boys ball teams played at 1 'iVhitney Saturday afternoon. The i boys played the Mt. Carmel team, and won the game by one run.' The girls soft ball team played, the Cedar Cliff team and lost, 8-5. | Ernest Crawford is coming home Satur:lay from FI. Benning, Ga., where he has been at ROTC camp for six weks. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Craw’ford. Mrs. Weston Lloyd came home Sunday from a hospital in Burl ington. Jeter Lloyd was sick last week, but is better. He was at church Sunday night. Colon 'L’hompson underwent a be or ne cannot survive m oui . va Mnc ^ , ... ' .'Stomach operation at the V.-V nos present-day economy, though he Thursday pital in Durham last Thursday. He is getting along as well as vvas expected. Duke, an outs^tAntiinr bull now 1 cated a^' ^ ernnont ' Farm, YC’i' bt.';'.1 ennsylvania. Ihc hiinh of this calf was the rt of a new technique develop ed in the artificial breeding pro- .gTcm. The Gaernsdrl Farm owns ^ ,,pproxi- one-half interest in this bull, and A AAA 1 ^ Vl o $150,000 In Grants ' Given To Psychiatry Dr. George C. Ham, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of the University- School of Medicine, ha5 announced oiie-baJ interest in tnis bull, , ,|,atgiy 5150,000 in grants from the iir cooperation with the other part Institute of Mental Mrs. John Kirby and Mrs. Lizzie Copeland visited Mrs, Arthur Dawson at her home last week. Mrs. Daw^son recently returned home from W’atts Hospital .where she spent several weeks as a pa tient. owner, semen was collected and | ^ g frozen by a .special process, The I present fiscal semen is diluted and placed m l: cc, sterile ampullas. These ampul-; for las are wrapped in sverihzed cot- s|fo,„ds ■ for residents in ton and,p,aced into holes bored m : dry ,ce. The dry ice is then pack- P ..ppiement the regu- cd into insulated containers and ^^^_ departmental staff’s instruc-, But I don’t believe the reasons shippMl by mr to the local Ra- specialty: (21 A pilot j justify the omission. .eigh-Dinham On arriva explore the possibility ] 1 don’t mean to say that being at the GUernsdsl aim e effectively teaching and: a family doctor does not offer re- pu .IS are a-en ou 0 , J no haste nsvebiatrir con-! wun.is anri nrofessional gratifica- must be a good doctor first and foremost. The operating expenses of my practice average 40 per cent of my gross income (pay able. but not always paid). J am expected to a.s.sumc the bui'deii of charity patients. I have treated many v'harity patients, as every doctor has, without compen- setion for time or drugs, and I v/ill continue to do so. But now and then, it becomes a great strain physically and financially. Few health - his-uranee policies provide /or the family doctor. Though fulfilling a vital need, the average hospitalization or medical- care policy carries no clause of compensation for the general practitioner, though the financial^ interests of both hospital and||ast Wednesday. The twins surgeon are protected. There are named Donald and Ronald, undoubtedly sound fiscal and sta tistical reasons for this from the insurance companies’ viewpoint. Mrs. Marvin Morrow is at home from Memorial Hospital. Mrs. John Durham. Mrs. Ada Byrd. Mrs. Mabel Glosson, Mrs. Myrtle Glosson and Mrs. Cary Snipes visited Mr.s. Lillie Mori'ow^ last week at Butner Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bowden are the parents of twin boys born are ice and placed into a thermos* jug. Alcohol is then poured into the thermos jug covering the ampullas and the whole thermos jug.is then packed in a case of dry ice. Then, GREENE ELECTRIC CO. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR FREE ESTIMATES Phane 8-1537 Chapel hill integrating basic psychiatric con-! wands and professional gratifica- cepts with the other basic medical lion. I would trade nothing tor the science disciplines; (3) An ex-: wealth of warm human experience pcrimental teaching plan for first- that has come my way a.s a coun year medical students oriented to- j try (lo,ctor in three brief years of ward the multidisciplinary study; practice. of human iliness;; (4) The develop ment of a program of training, research and .service in child psy chiatry and (5) The exlen.sion and expansion of a p.sychoiogical in ternship program in the Depart ment of Psychiatry. Several specific steps can be, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Whitfield have a baby girl who was born la.st w'eek. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bradshaw and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bowden went tn the mountains for the weekend. Mr, and Mrs. Alton Durham are in Florida this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles We.arer and Doris Yow went to New York Iasi week to visit relatives. Faye Andrews is visiting her sister, Mrs. Milton Check, .n Gi af- and are being, taken to encourage ; fon, Va., for two weeks, doctors to enter general practice i Mrs. Elsie Durham is Visiting her and to stay in the field. Here are] daughter, Mrs. G. R. Aldridge, of Opposite Post Office Flower Shop Phone 4851 some basic approaches: ' Durham. 1. Any community that does j Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snipes not have a single doctor could j and daughter, Susan, took a tixp adequately support two general! to the mountains last week, practitioners. I Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sturdivant 2. To close the gaps in health and family went to Lexington last insurance, representatives of the various state medical societies and officials of the leading insurance and medkal-car groups might weekend to visit relatives. Faye Mann k* spending thi-s week in Burlington with relatives. Jean Harris, of Burlington, spent ORDER FUEL fi/om DON'T BE CAUGHT SHORT ON FUEL! Be read'/ wh.en cold weather comes! Stock up now while prices are low. There's an ample supply now, and you're assured of prompt deliv ery. Call us today and order. Bennett & Blocksidge 105 E. Franklin St. Phone 6161 ana meaicai-car gnmpa uuam — well discuss guaranteeing a gen-j I'^st week with 1 r. a eral practitioner his fee, even if, Mann and family. . Judv and Phvllis Strowd are It means raising premium rates. • 3. Through existing welfare , » Norwood this agencies or through a locally spon-' MaiV ana sored charity medical fund, com-;^^ ' ' ;y.jjrs munities should compensate doc-1 tor.s with a standard, ii-'lowcr, foe for treating charity cases. 4. Medical schools should con tinue the trend toward incorporat ing "division of general practice” into their programs. •5. America’s press and enter tainment media have a wonderful opportunity to help shore up the relationship betwen patient and doctor. Radio. TV and the movies Sam Riley and Mrs, Madge Mclver were vi.silors at Antioch Church Sunday. Exchangeites Appoint Four New Chairmen Four committee chairmen were appointed' by Charles Stancell. General Chairman of the Gold Rush project, at the Tuesday meeting of the Exchange Club. uijLi-.-.. U..X. They are Herb Holland, Judg-j without sacrificing dramatic ap- ing; George Cannefax, Grounds: 1 . 4- A J - ' n.oU Vniino' Awarri.s: and Whid ■peal, can work toward a more | Dick Young, Awards: and Whid realistic approach to today’s mod-: 'PoweM. Participation, ern small-town phy.-ician, showing ] An annual event, the Gold Rush in their portrayals that a doctor ■ has been tentatively scheduled for is not only human and a valuable October 6. person in, his community, but ~ ^ might even legitimately be a good ' steps are taken, I am certain that businessman. ! other young doctors in my position Until these and other similar will do as I am doing. |.\.\K i'.XKlxLK .\ SELECT FROM A&P’s WONDERFUL VARIETY OF. FINE QUALITY SUMMER FOODS! To»iaio Juiee . 'can 3Ig Gr@@ii Peas can 21c . Merb-Ox BcuHiosi Gybes 8c Nabisco Waveriy Wafers il!oz 27c i/ach IAM- FAKKRR GIA.NT Jelly Rolls 49c fei MP Apple Sauce _. 2 27c IONA CUT Uadi Green leans 2 - LA-GHOY PRODUCTS - VEGETABLE CHOP SUEY 30c SOY SAUCE 17c CHOW MEIN NOODLES 17c BEAN SPROUTS “^Jb. 15^ BEEF CHOP SUEY 53c -OUK FINEST QUALITY-’ A&P SMAl.i. 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