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Duke Hospital, InterGom Page 5 Asking Around By Marie Price AVhat would you recommend to in crease attendance at the annual hos pital picnics? Senior Staff Member: Notify chief of every department and have secre tary therein call each member in the department; have resident of each service arrange for maximum imniber of house officers to be free of duties so that they may attend. Maid: More games and recreation for women. There’s too much for the men and not enough for the women to do. Nurse: Publicity. The newer em ployees of the hospital do not know enough about the annual picnic to receive enough encouragement from the small posters. Secretary: Attendance would increase if there was more organized pub licity. SUPT’S CORNER (Continued from page 2) plined organization with its many seg ments losing their identity with the total function. Although it is ob viously impossible to return to the one big happy family concept of our early years, it is extremely important that every member of the Medical Center staff recognize that he is an ambassador of public relations for the institution. None of us can hope to know every member of the Medical Center staff nor can we hope to un derstand every activity that is being carried on, but we can take pride in our organization and sell it to our ever-growing community. If we have shortcomings, and T am sure that we have many, we should keep these within the family and work together to eliminate them. Duke University Medical Center is going to grow, and with its growth our piiblic relations job is going to become more difficult. If our public relations are to be effective, every member of the Medical Center family iinist exert greater effort and under standing than ever before. Jordan Named to Top Florida Post L. R. Jordan has resigned his post as Director of the Duke University Medical Center’s Out-Patient Depart ment to accept a top hospital adminis trative position at the University of Florida. Effective September 1, Mr. Jordan became Director of the Teach ing Hospital and Clinics at the Uni versity of Florida’s J. Ilillis Miller Health Center in Gainesville, Florida. The 400-bed hos])ital at the Health Center there has been in operation L. R. Jordan since October 1958. Jordan was also named associate professor of manage ment in the College of Business Ad ministration of the University. He had been director of the Duke Out-Patient Dei)artment, an assistant superintendent of Duke Hospital and assistant professor of hospital admin istration at Duke since 1957. Earlier he was a consultant to the department of medicine at Duke and a faculty member in the University of North Carolina School of Business Adminis tration. Mr. Jordan’s contribution to the Duke Medical Center’s Out- Patient Department is best summed up in his own statement of its aims. Christian A. Letzins © Christian A. Letzing, for many years in charge of the Brace Shop at Duke Hospital died September 13, 1959, at the age of 75. Dean W. C. Davison writes of Mr. Letzing: “Duke University Medical Center has lost one of its pioneers in Chris tian A. Letzing. Mr. Letzing came from the Cihildreu’s Hospital in Bos ton in 1931 and ((uickly established a reputation of not only making excel lent braces and orthopedic appliances for children and adults, but also in training others to follow in his foot- stej)s. Two of his outstanding dis- c.ir)les are Bert R. Titus who is now Director and Instructor in Orthosis and Prosthesis of the Duke University Medical Center and William McEl- duff‘ who lias his own orthopedic a]>- I)liance office in Asheville. “Mr. Letzing started his career by repairing bicycles and then as the de mand for orthojjedic ap))liances in creased he converted his shop and made braces and splints. He was so successful that the orthopedic division of the Children’s Hos])ital in Boston soon ])ei'suaded him to move to the Childi'(>n’s Hosj)ital. “Dr. Alfred R. Shands, Jr., who was in charge of oi-thopedics at. Duke in 1931, learned of Mr. Letzing’s ability and invited him to come to Duke. We shall all miss him, but we shall also be grateful to him for his great contribution to the develo]>ment of orthopedic apj)liances at Duke and in the State.” “Our philosophy,” he had .said, “is to provide medical care of the same high (juality as that received by pri vate patients and then to ret|uire the patient to ]>ay in accordance with his ability. We believe that the assump tion of some financial res])onsibility is important for the patient’s dignity and self-res])ect and we make every effort to keep people from feeling that they’re charity patients.”
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