Duke Hospital, InterGom
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We were sorry to have our maid,
Alice Stone, leave us after many years
of faithful service. Ifer daughter-in-
law, Mildred Stone, is our new maid.
Anesthesia
Dr. James M. Lane has completed
two years’ residency and is practicing
in Taylors, South Carolina. Dr. Eu
gene A. Thomason from Fountain
Inn, South Carolina, has begun his
residency.
Virginia Ilackett has replaced Mrs.
Ruth Jolls. The Jolls family have
moved to Raleigh.
Medical Record Library
Welcome to some new department
members: Barbara Patterson, Ramona
Overman, Evelyn Ilieks, Shirley But
ler and Alene Moore. Mollie Morris
has been transferred from Microfilm
ing to the telephone desk.
Kay Loepp resigned effective May
;30. She is driving all the way back
to Washington State to marry a North
Carolina boy.
Microbiology
Anna Price, Vaccine Lab, is leav
ing for Oklahoma City where her hus
band, Bill, will be a resident in Sur-
gery.
Edith Reuegar, Dr. Conant’s secre
tary, left June 1.
Pediatrics
Becky Lakey has replaced Lois
Wallace as a secretary in the Depart
ment. Lois is expecting a baby.
Capt. Fred Glover, Resident in Pe
diatrics last year, is now in Germany
with the Army.
Private Medical Laboratory
Bettye Hillman has left for John
son City, Tennessee, where husband,
Charles, will do private practice.
Eleanor Blackman has left to ac
cept a position at the V.A. Hospital.
Welcome to Rita Dukes, a new
member of our technician group. Her
husband is on the house staff.
Psychiatry
Ann Smith and husband Bill, an
administrative intern, are moving to
Fort Worth, Texas, where Bill has a
job.
Paye Perry is a secretary with the
(/enter for Aging.
Three of our secretaries plan to va
cation in Europe this summer; Mrs.
Shirley Crook, Mrs. Marion Iloyle,
and Mrs. Dorothy Bradsher who w'ill
be there about a year.
Dr. Juan Pons who has been with
us as a fellow in geriatric psychiatry
for two years returns to Puerto Rico
in June. Dr. Pons was Secretary of
Health for Puerto Rico from 1946-
1957. He has been at Duke under a
II. S. Public Health Service grant.
His wife and son, Joe, have been with
him in Durham.
X-ray
At the meeting of the North Caro
lina Society of X-ray technicians,
Washington Duke Hotel, April 17-18,
Wiley R. Tice, R. T. of the depart
ment of Radiology, was elected presi
dent for the coming year. Laura
Smith, })resident of the 1959 class in
X-ray Technology, won first place for
her exhibit. Fluid Levels and the Cen
tral Ray, and second place for her pa
per at the Student Scientific Section,
Second jilace for a scientific paper
(non-student) went to Mary J. Lock-
hart and third place to Wiley Tice.
We regret that Alberta Keith and
Nancy Duniugan have left the staff.
We welcome Marj' Sears, Mrs. Marie
Blount and Joan Forrest.
Surgical P.D.C.
Mrs. E. S. Raper is doing relief
work (nursing) in SPD(\
Welcome to some new staff mem
bers: Mrs. Bettye Jones, Compensa
tion and Liability Ofifieer; Mrs. Hazel
Rich, switchboard operator; Airs.
Gladys Hogan and Gale Walker,
cashiers; and Betty Crabtree, techni
cian.
Barbara Green, lab technician,
transferred to the Medical Research
Laboratory J une 1.
PLAUDITS
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tal pharmacy. The aw'ard will be }>re-
sented at a testimonial dinner August
17 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. L. R. Jordan, Director of the
Outpatient Department, was one of
five members of the local Junior
Chamber of Commerce to receive
“Key Men” awards recently. The
awards recognize outstanding service.
HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
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achieved by excellent cooperation
from all segments of the Medical
Center. Weekly evening seminars
are led by members of the various
departments in the Jledical Center.
In addition two periods each week are
set aside for group discussion of hos
pital problems, assigned reading and
individual student ])rojects. In the
field of practical experience, as the
stiulent rotates through the depart
ments, cooperation of the hospital staff"
is ecpially important. The first two
weeks are spent under the guidance
of the program director getting ac
quainted with the ])hysical i)lant and
the key personnel of the institution.
A short course in medical terminology
and the processing and filing of pa
tient’s records is given by the Medical
Record Librarian. Three months each
are spent working in the Admitting
Office, Business Office and the Office
of the Administrator. The Admit
ting Office provides experience in deal
ing with patients, ])hysicians and the
many agencies which sponsor staff' ]ia-
tients. In the Business Office the stu
dent learns the' nuuiy ])hases of hos-
pital business j)ractice, busiiu'ss rela
tions with government aid ])rogi'ams,
and practices specific to hospitals such
as caring for })atients’ valuables aiul
discharge procedures. In the Ad-
nunistrator’s Office he gets a ])icture
of the Superintendent’s daily activi
ties and his approach to administra
tive problems. Further patient con
tact comes with three months in the
Out-Patient Clinic. A six-months as-