Duke Hospital, InterGom
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The teaeliiiig program will include
orientation lectures, demonstrations,
special courses and clinical 'vvork with
physically handicapped patients.
A Rehabilitation Board, composed
of Duke doctors, will provide for the
education of hospital personnel in the
field of general rehabilitation plan
ning; and w’ill supervise long-range
plans for patients from their admis
sion to the hospital until their return
to self-care or work.
Dr. Herbert Park, director of the
Department of Physical Medicine and
Kehabilitation at the Baruch Founda
tion, Richmond, Va., will serve as
consultant for the Rehabilitation
Service here. He was chosen for the
assignment because he has conducted
a i)rograiu of rehabilitation at the
Baruch Foundation for a period of
three years, and, as a graduate of the
Duke ^ledical School, is thoroughly
familiar with the facilities and re
sources here.
The Crippled Children’s Bureau
and the Federal Government’s Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation will co-
ojierate with Duke during the first
year of the program. Future plans
call for cooperation w'ith other re
habilitation agencies.
During the first year, the teaching
program will be started and the Re
habilitation Board will be placed in
operation. The general plan calls for
initiating the non-physician services
relating to rehabilitation during the
second year. This w’ill be done under
a genera] rehabilitation administrator.
Already at the Duke School of Med
icine under the direction of Miss Hel
en Kaiser, the Department of Physical
Therapy is carrying on an American
Jledical Association approved teach
ing program for students in physical
therapy, with scholarships provided
by the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. One of the stu
dents in this program currently is
working under direction of Dr. Joseph
]\Iarkee in the Department of Anat
omy on an M.A. degree in physical
therapy. The Department of Physi
cal Therapy has recently expanded
its enrollment.
Al.so allied w'ith the postgraduate
and medical student teaching pro
gram at Duke Hospital since 1952 are
the teaching facilities of the 500-bed
Durham Veterans Administration
Hospital.
In addition, the Cerebral Palsy
Hospital, directed by Dr. Lenox
Baker, head of the Division of Ortho
paedics and Physical Therapy at Duke
Hos])ital and the School of Medicine,
is part of the teaching program in
orothopaedics and physical therapy
]\Iiss Edna Blumenthal is in charge of
the coordination of the program. The
Cerebral Palsy Hospital is supported
by funds from the State of North
Carolina. Dr. Baker, former chair
man of the Rehabilitation Committee
for Duke, was responsible for setting
tlie stage for the new' service to be
launched here this fall.
Also on the local scene in the re
habilitation field are a Spiiuil Injury
Conference and an Amputee Clinic.
Tliese services meet weekly to carry
a tean approach to problems in the
paraplegic and the amputee patients.
Ten medical specialties are repre
sented at the paraplegic conference,
and the entire rehabilitation program
of the paraplegic is discussed. Follow-
up of these patients is possible in
instances in which the patient joins
and attends tlie meeting of the North
Carolina Paraplegic Society. The
Amputee Clinic is under the direction
of
This ’n’ That
Physiology and Pharmacology
We welcome to the department Dr.
Johnny Long, assistant professor of
physiology, who is from St. Mary’s
Hospital Medical School in London;
and Dr. Karl Agre from Jefferson
iledical School in Philadelphia and
Dr. John Salzano from the University
of Iowa, who are new instructors in
physiology.
Two new technicians, Mrs. Beryl
Ledniser and Mrs. Barbara Mc
Cormack, are working for Dr. Goodall.
Alice Long enjoyed a vacation in
Chicago, Mackinac Island and Ni
agara Falls.
i\Irs. Carol Fennell is now working
as a technician in the department.—
Sue Gaines.
Sxirgical PDC
Kitty Brunson’s engagement to
Pete Bennett has been announced.
They wall be married Saturday, Nov.
17 at the Church of Latter Day Saints
here.
Mrs. Becky Horton of 1618 N. Duke
St. has joined us as a new' secretary.
Becky’s husband, Paul, is connected
with WTVI).
It is with regret tliat we lose Mrs.
Shirley Mitchell, one of our secre
taries, and her husband. Jack, who
has transferi-ed to the University of
San Francisco.
iMrs. Minnie Heeht has also left us
to join her husband, Fred, in Knox
ville, Tenn.
Betsy Farmer returned recently
from a visit with Caroline iMcCall,
former technician in SPDC, W'ho is
iu)w employed at Riverside Hospital
in Jacksonville, Fla.
^Irs. Floride Bock also lias returned
from South Carolina, where she
visited her mother.
X-Ray
X-ray is happy to add to their de
partment seven new' students in X-ray
Technology. They are: Betty Mc
Lendon, Evelyn. Voaklander, Della
Russ, Allan Johnson, Curtis May,
Marion Griggs and Sally Burdine.
We also have a new staff technician,
ilrs. Anne Parker Carroll Mulhol-
land. George Engelniann, our chief
technician in clinic x-ray, resigned
and is now at Wilnier, Minn.
Carolyn Barber, one of our office
crew, is now Airs. John Sharpe. She
and John exclianged vows at the St.
Joseph’s Episcopal Church. After a
honeymoon in New York she and Jolni
will reside at 9431/. ]\Iorreene Dairy
Rd.
Shirley Talley and Richard Riggs-
bee will b(^ hearing w'edding bells
Oct. 19 at Temple Baptist Church.
There have been several sliow'ers for
Shirley during the past few weeks.