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Page 6 Duke Hospital, InterCom Supt^^ Cotnet By. F. Ross Porter We are, quite naturally, verj’ proud of our new operating room section and are sayinjj so as we feature it in this issue. In doiii>; so we are actually paying: particular tribute to our sur gical departments who have not only developed to the point of requiring such facilities and equipment, but also have created and financed them. In saluting the surgical dei)art- ments we are also paying tribute to the other departments, for in the cur rent era of medical practice no de partment stands alone. Surgery is made more effective by other disci plines and other disciplines may often achieve their objectives through skilled surgery. An integrated effort by all de])artnients to focus upon the patient’s problem has characterized the thinking, j)lanning and operation of our professional organization from the beginning. These operating rooms and allied facilities and ecpiipment also serve as a reminder of the tremendous ad vances which have been made in medi cal knowledge. Surgical procedures previously impossible are now' possi ble, not only because of advances in surgical technique, but also because of new drugs, new anesthetics, new knowledge of blood and blood deriva tives and of electrolytic balance, and because of diagnostic aids which were unknown a few years ago. We are also reminded that advances as illustrated by these facilities are creating such demands for the con centration of skilled personnel and expensive equipment that financing and staffing are becoming iiicreasing- h' acute problems. An annual operat ing budget of approximately one half million dollars is required for our op erating room and allied sections alone. Problems of Emotionally Disturbed Children A special conference on the prob lems of emotionally disturbed children was held at the Duke Medical Center February 28-March 1. Made possible by the Nemours Foundation of Wil mington, J)el., in cooperation w'itli the N. C. Health Council, the confer ence considered the disruptive forces of present-day modes and living and such specific problems as speech hand icaps, convulsions and neuromuscular sym])toms, the mentally handicapped child and the child in court. The group studied the extent of the prob lem of emotionally disturbed children in North Carolina and appraised the services available for the prevention, detection and care of emotional dis turbances. Dr. Hans Lowenbach was chairman of the 1958 conference planning com mittee. Dr. -John Fowler and J)r. -Jerome Harris participated in the con ference together w’ith a distinguished panel of guest speakers. Dr. Colien Named Commission Chairman Dr. Louis 1). Cohen, associate i>ro- fessor of medical psychology and chief of clinical psychology, has been named chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board’s Commission on the Training of School Psychologists. (’oniposed of educators and psy chologists from the 16 states that com prise the Southern Governors’ Con ference, and financed by a $22,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, U. S. Public Health Service, the commission was set up to help provide more well trained psy chologists for the school program of the South. The attitudes and concentrated ef forts which brought us the facilities we are now viewing with pride are, no doubt, the ones which will help us meet the problems attending their op eration. Postgraduate Courses in Medical Specialties During recent months members of the Department of Medicine have di rected three post-graduate courses in medical specialties. A course in arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, directed by Dr. E. 1.1. Persons March 10-11, was high lighted by a j)ublic forum in the Woman’s College Auditorium. The course was atteiuled by doctors from throughout the state. Fifteen mem bers of the Duke medical faculty served as instr>ictors together with Dr. Russell L. Cecil, Medical Direc tor of The Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, New York; Dr. Elam C. Toone, Jr., of the Medical College of V’irginia; and Dr. Amos N. Johnson, general practitioner of Garland, N. C. Some 40 ])hysiciajis from through out North Carolina attended a three- day advanced postgraduate course in electrocardiograi)hy January 21-23. The course was directed by Dr. Ed ward S. Orgain, and instructors in cluded Drs. E. Harvey Estes, George Maha and Walter P^h>yd. Eighty-five physicians from 22 States aiul (Canada attended a five-day course in February on diseases of the digestive organs. This gastroenterol ogy course, one of several courses sponsored each year by the American College of Physicians, was under the direction of Dr. Julian M. Ruffin. The 155-nuin facultj' included physicians from nine other medical centers and Duke. Who’s Who Top row, left to right: Stead, Anlyan and Ruffin, Carter. Center row: Persons, Reeves. Bottom row: Hamblen, Davison, Forbus, Hart.
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