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Duke Hospital, InterCom
Supt^^
Coxnex
We are extremely happy to extend
a warm welcome to the many new
members of our Staff who have join
ed us since the beginning of our fiscal
and academic year. To the 40 or more
new additions to our nursing staff
we extend a particularly cordial
welcome. We do so, not only because
we are glad to have you as individuals
but also because you represent the
achievement of a relatively complete
nursing staff for the first time in a
decade or more.
We are confident that this achieve
ment is going to enable us to in
stitute measures for the improvement
of our nursing service which will not
only greatly benefit our patients and
other members of our Staff, but will
add greatly to the satisfaction you
can obtain from your work with us.
For example, we hope that we may
now proceed with the development
of an intensive nursing service for
the more acutely ill patient. We also
hope to push ahead with the develop
ment of team nursing beyond the
seven wards now benefiting from this
concept.
In welcoming new members of the
Staff we are reminded of the pleasure
we always derive from making new
friends among the many new student
and staff groups who come here. We
are likewise reminded of the sadness
which accompanies their departure.
Some we shall see again and some
we shall not. It is good to remember
that all of them leave something with
us which cannot be lost; whether it
be the years of dedicated service of
an Elizabeth Glen Swett or the fine
experience of one year’s friendship
and association with a Dr. T. C. Kao.
No suggestions were received by
this column in response to our request
for ideas in developing a program for
promoting an even greater atmosphere
of friendliness in Duke Hospital.
What about some? Maybe you have
been doing instead of suggesting. A
visiting nurse from another country
recently wrote me upon departure:
‘ ‘ I am very grateful for all that was
done to make my stay at Duke
beneficial to me. I am most grateful
of all, however, for showing me that
one can be an efficient nurse without
being cold and impersonal.”
Merry Christmas ahead of time.
'CkU /t^ Z)kat
Physical Therapy
Miss Eleanor Flanagan represented
the Physical Therapy Department
on a panel “Physical Therapy in the
Management of Medical and Surgical
Chest Cases” at the N. C. Chapter
meeting in Asheville, October 1st.
Mrs. Hans Peters from Germany,
who has been with us for four months,
left us the first of December to go to
Augusta, Georgia, where her husband,
Dr. Ilans Peters, will be an instructor
in Pathology at the Medical School.
Mrs. K. Martin Jordan has also
left us to join her husband who is
in the Air Force.
Aliss Constance Jenks was married
to Eobert Peake of Durham in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, on November
26th.
Miss Etliel Dreyer, formerly of
Charitj' Hospital at New Orleans,
has been with us since September 1st
and is an instructor in the Physical
Therapy program.
The Physical Theraj)y Division
held an open house on Friday, Decem
ber 2nd, for high school and college
students. There was a demonstration
of treatment technique as well as
presentation of selected cases.
Ten Physical Therapy students re
ceived their certificates at a dinner
held in the Trinity Room on Decem
ber 8th. The guest speaker was Dr.
James T. Cleland.
Anatomy
Dr. Hetherington attended a meet
ing of the Tissue C\ilture Association
in Washington, D. C., in November.
Dr. Markee and Dr. Peele repre
sented the department at ‘ ‘ the South
ern” in Houston, Texas. Dr. ^Markee
received an Honorable Mention for
his exhibit.
Psychiatry
Dr. Charles Llewellyn has joined
the department as an Associate in
Psychiatry at the Kirby Clinic. Dr.
Llewellyn has just finished a tour of
duty in the Army.
Dr. Bill Wilson, who is now on the
Psychiatry staff at the V. A., has a
new daughter. The young lady has
two older brothers.
Three new secretaries have come
to tlie department in the past few
months: Mrs. Sheila Grodsky, whose
husband is a second year medical
student, is secretary to Dr. Louis
Cohen; Mrs. Mildred Hean is working
with Dr. Lowenbach; and Elizabeth
Lansing is secretary to the Geriatrics
Research Project.
Pediatrics
New members of the department:
Dr. Doris A. Howell has been appoint
ed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
in Hematology. Dr. Karl Leitheiser
has rejoined the staff as an Assistant
Resident. Charlotte Terhune will soon
begin work with Dr. Howell as a
laboratory technician in the position
now held by Nell Schrader.
And to Jeff and Skippy Painter,
a little girl, Fran.
Physiology
Dr. Penrod was in San Antonio,
Texas, November 14-16, attending a
meeting on Medical Education for
National Defense.
Pathology
We welcome a new secretary to the
department: Gerry Kai)lon. Gerry
comes to us from W. C. in Greensboro
where she was an English major.
Medical PDC
Kathryn Montague, secretary to
]\Ir. Cobb, served as delegate of the
Durham Chapter of the National
Secretaries Association at the South
eastern District Convention in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, November 11-
13. She was awarded third place in
the district contest for her essay on
“Public Relations for the Secretary.’'
Medicine
Dr. and Mrs. Henry McIntosh have
a new baby girl, born in early Octo
ber.
Helen Hilderman, Dr. Estes’ tech
nician, left November 16 on a Ber
muda-bound cruise.
Dr. Hans Gieraths, a guest of Dean
Davison’s, has been an observer in
the medical department since August.
He finished his stay on November 16
and is now on his way back to his
native Germany.