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Duke HosrriAi., iNiiiKCo.M Page 3 job of ordering, maiiufaeturing, and dispensing drugs to our patients, tlie ^^arniacy is involved in many side ventures of interest. One is a mail order service wherein children who arc participants in the State’s rheu matic fever program receive their medication direct from Duke by mail. The pharmacy also tries to help its doctors by putting their bulk experi mental drugs in various dosage forms. According to Mr. Reamer, the key to success or failure of any depart ment where efficient, economic and loyal service is so important is the personnel. And here is where Duke really shines. Mr. Reamer himself has been active over the years in the American Society of Hospital Phar macists, the North Carolina Pharma ceutical Association and has served on the N. C. Board of Pharmacy because he feels that active participation in pharmaceutical organizations is part of the work of any good hosi)ital phar macist. He is also an active contribu- to the ])harmacy journals and this ^^ar he w^as honored by hospital phar macies throughout the coimtry with the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Whitney Award—the profession’s recognition of their Man of the Year. The department itself has been written about in Hospital ^lanagement and in the bulletin of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. Interest “beyond the call of duty” can be found in many of the other staff members as well. Mrs. Jessie Lee Wilkins who has been a pharma cist at Duke for 17 years has become well versed in the uses of various sur gical devices ordered through the pharmacy. She has spent a lot of time learning just how devices—such as those needed by colostomy patients —are used so that the pharmacy can offer better service to the nursing staff and i)atients. She also was Duke’s representative to the Institute of Hos- ^^il Pharmacists in Salt Lake City jast June. Orderly Willie Mack White checks items on Pharmacy Exchange Truck before making daily delivery to wards and clinics. ■Miss Nell Kvans, with the Duke pharmacy for f) years, is a charter member of the N. C. Society of Hos pital Pharmacists and has been active as their historian. Her specialty in the iej)artmeiit is tlie preparation of reagents and stains for use in the hiboratories. Peggy Winters came to Duke from West \’irginia two years for lier in ternship and liked it enough to re main liere and join Air. Uiggsbee in the newly opened Clinic Pharmacy. •Much of Peggy’s spare time is de- vot('(l to her hobby of i)hotograj)hy. The new clinic pharmacy has proved an exciting challenge to Mr. Riggsbei*—the staff’s stabilizing in fluence in nioments of crisis. His main interest is in keej)ing up with the newest drugs likely to be pre scribed by tlie clinic ])hysicians. His fund of current knowledge is particu larly important since most of the drugs dispensed today have been de- veloped within the past ten years. All of Duke’s registered pharma cists take part in the pharmacy in ternship program. It is their guid ance and teaching of the practical aspects of pharmacy that round out the pharmaceutical education of these recent pharmacy graUnites. Duke in terns have gone on to fill many of the posts for i)harmacists in hospitals all over the state, as well as many re sponsible i)ositions in the retail drug field. However, it is always the hope that these young men and women will choose a career in the field of hospital |)harmacy where our pharmacists feel a |)ersoii can find the most exciting and challenging work in their ]>rofes- sion. Ultraviolet vs. Sta With “staph” aureus now hardened to many wonder drugs the menace of oj)ci-ating room infection caused by air-borne bacteria shows an alarm ing increase. Since 1936 Duke Hos- jiital’s use of ultraviolet radiation in conjunction with .standard sterile techni(}ues has kept its rate for this (('ontiuued on j)age 5)
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