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Two audiometric chambers used in hearing examinations are
among facilities located in the new Diagnostic and Treatment
Unit. Mrs. Susie Hunt, a clinical audiologist in the ear, nose and
throat clinic, is shown as she prepares to check the hearing of a
patient in sound-proof chamber at right.
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Dr. D. Bernard Amos (left), director of the Medical Center’s
immunogenetics research program, describes to dedication guests
studies that may help make possible the successful transplanta
tion of various tissues and organs. Transplantations which are
surgically possible may fail because of incompatibility of host
and donor. Dr. Amos’s unit hopes to solve some of the problems
of graft rejection.
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Congressman John E. Fogarty (D-R. I.), left, gave the principal
address at the dedication of the new building housing the Center
for the Aging, Diagnostic and Treatment Unit and Clinical Re
search Unit. Pictured with Fogarty, left to right, are North
Carolina’s Sixth District Representative Horace B. Kornegay;
Dr. Ewald W. Busse and President Douglas M. Knight.
Surgeons from a number of states returned to the campus for
the 1963 meeting of the Deryl Hart Society. Founded in 1955 the
Society is a tribute to Dr. Hart and serves to further surgical
training and research. Chatting with Dr. Hart, center, are left to
right. Dr. H. M. Baker of Lumberton; Dr. Van Fletcher, Chat
tanooga, Tenn.; Dr. Richard Floyd, Lexington, Ky.; and Dr.
Paul Schanher, Springfield, Ohio.
Sparks and Wallace
Frontiers in Medicine
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but will increase.” Scientific ad
vances will further increase our life
span, and retirement will come earlier
and earlier. But this will increase the
social and economic problems of
elderly people and also aifect their
health status. As examples of such
problems, he cited the difficulties
elderly people sometimes have in re-
sumin}? their roles in family and
community affairs after long periods
of ho.spitalization; and the difficulties
that health personnel face in caring
for the chronically ill.
Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., chairman
of the Department of Medicine at
Duke, described the relatively new
area of clinical investigation. He ex
plained that practicing physicians are
concerned mainly with treating pa
tients with knowledge now available.
Quantitative biologists, on the other
hand, are devoted to seeking new in
formation. The clinical investigator,
Dr. Stead told the seminar audience,
is concerned with the intensive study
of diseases in patients and thus must
combine the abilities of the practicing
doctor and the research specialist. He
noted that clinical research is costly
because it demands expensive equip
ment, specially trained personnel and
unusual facilities for patient care.
A CBS regional telecast of research
activities underway in the new build
ing was broadcast during half-time of
the Duke-Navy game. This was ex
pected to reach 6 million viewers.
Coinciding wdth the seminar on
“Frontiers in Medicine” was the an
nual meeting of the Deryl Hart So
ciety. This society is composed of
.surgeons who trained under Dr. Hart.
The final event in this big medical
weekend was the dedication on Satur
day, November 16, of the new $4 mil
lion building which houses the Duke
Center for the Study of Aging, a Di
agnostic and Treatment Unit and a
Clinical Research Unit for intensive
study of diseases.