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DUKE HOSPITAL WWBmWli VOL. 6, NO. 3 FEBKITary, 1960 DIJHHAM, N. C. CAMPBELL Mr. I. T. Reamer, center, Chief Pharmacist at Duke, discusses literature just received on a new drug with pharmacists Lloyd Riggsbee, Jessie Lee Wilkins and Nell Evans. inacy koops a file of ciiiTi'iit iiifoniiu- tion oil (Inifjs and a listiiifj of curriMit Service— The Key to Duke Pharmacy’s Success Tlie calm, assured atiiiosphere you feel in the pharmacy here at Duke is the result of years of ))ainstakiiij or- fjranizatioii by iMr. I. T. H(‘amer, Chief Pharmacist, and his >f dedi cated assistants. The main job of the hosi)ital pharmacy, ac'cordinf? to .Mr. Reamer, is service—sei'vice to the j)a- tient, the doctor, the nurse and the administrative staff. This is the j)hilos- opliy ]\Ir. Reamer broufjht to Duke when he came here from .Johns llo])- i^s on Duke’s first anniversary in That year Jfr. Reamer and one assistant operated the pharmacy ■wilii an inventory of about $:3,()()(). Today this departnumt has fjrown to include five registered pharmacists and three interns aiul has an annual budjret of $2r)(),000 and an inventory of .'!;')(),()()() —and tluit’s a lot of pills in any body’s book! Now let’s see just what our phar macy does. Its most obvious job is to su])|)ly medication for the 4(i() in- I)atients and 410 out-patients cared for on an avera{>:c day at Duke Hos pital. This in it.self is a formidable task. Hut tlie pharmacy also sup|)lies medicinals for over T),()()() University students, hosi)ital em])loyees, medical and nursiufj students, house staff members aiul residents of the iMeth- odist Retirement Ilojiie. 15esides or- deriufj:, preparin>: and dispensiui? drui;s to this large grouj), the Phar macy also ))r()j)ares stains and reagent ttions for the hosjutal laboratories screens orders for all chemicals for the medical sciiool and rc'search laboratories. With all medical costs on the up swing, Duk(>’s ])harmacy sav(>s the patients all it can by manufacturing many of the drugs right here instead of buying them in r('ady to use forms. The manufactui'ing room also allows the pharnuicy to pre))are many spe cial diMigs developed here at Duke (such as ointnuMits). One of the things i\li'. Reamei' has always sti'esscd is a well-informed statf because such a staff can be so much moi'e hel|)ful to tlu' hos|)ital’s doctors and nurses. Keeping wi'll- infornu'd in the drug field is not easy, since every year ov(‘r :!()() new drugs ai'(> put on the market. The i)har- (Irng [)rices for their own use and urges the hospital staff to niaki' use of this data, too. Anothei' imi)ortant inidcM'taking of the pharmacy is the annual compila tion of a dei'inatological fornndarj'—a booklet listing drugs useful to derma tologists giving ingredients, ])riees and dosag(‘s. 'I'he de])artuu‘nt will also i-evise the complete Duke Hospi tal formulary of all drugs in the u(‘ar fufui'c. Nowadays the names of drugs have becouK' amazingly complicated with (‘ach drug company using a dif- fer(Mit trad(‘ name for the same drtig -and many time's a different name for ('ach form of the drug, sucli as
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