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Coxnex
by Charles II. Frenzel
A unique i)rograiii is underway in
North Carolina. It represents a pio
neer effort for a diversified industry,
health, to organize on a statewide
basis to sponsor and support the re
cruitment of students for a career in
one of over 25 professions.
“Health Careers for North Caro
lina” is now in the second year of a
three year pilot profjram to recruit
((ualified students into any one of the
many health professions. Early in
dications are that it is having some
success; apj)lications in most schools
are up for the classes entering in
19()4. It will not be j)ossible to meas
ure its real effect for at least another
year. Its goal is to double the ntim-
ber of toj) students who clioose a ca
reer in a health profession.
If successful, however, “Health
^^’areers” will [>resent a new problem,
^^nough oj)portunities for the young
peoj)le recruited. The Duke Univer
sity Medical Center must stand ready
to increase the class size of many of
its existing schools and to initiate
})rograms for the education of stu
dents in other fields. We must also
aid other schools and colleges in de
veloping programs at all levels.
The annual report for Duke Hospi
tal in this issue of InterCom gives a
comparison over a 30-year period of
selected financial and activity data.
I should like to call your attention to
the growth in the number of diagnos
tic and treatment procedures, indica
tion of the increase in the complexity
of hospital care. Much of the increase
in costs can be attributed to this in
crease and attendant need for more
specialized personnel.
Also noteworthy, is the change in
soui’ces of income. In recent years
government has become a major pro
vider for liospitalization, and endow-
•ments and gifts represent a smaller
(tnd smaller percentage of the hospi
tal ’s financial resources.
Thirty Years of Printin;
In existence since 1933, the Hospi
tal Printing Department, formerly
known as the Multilith Department,
has grown from a one-press, one-man
operation to a four-press, six-man
operation. Once equipped to print
only letterheads, the department now
prints most of the general forms used
within the Hospital and the Univer
sity, as well as some booklets, bro
chures, programs and complex multi
color j)roductions.
The origin of the department in
1933, can be traced to the purchase
by Mr. Elon Clark of a letterhead
F>ress which was operated under Mr.
Clark’s supervision in the Medical
Illustration Department (now the Di
vision of Medical Art and Illustra
tion). Within two years, hospital
forms began to be printed on the
press, and in 1935 the Multilith De-
l)artnient became a separate operation
under the supervision of Mr. N. P.
Carden, Jr.
Headciuarters were established in a
small room at the back of the lIos])i-
tal Storeroom; and here operations
continued until 1942, when growth in
staff", e(iuipmeut and production ue-
ce.ssitated a move to larger (juarters.
It was at that time that the Multilitli
Dej)artment moved to its present lo
cation, OOIB in the subbasement.
Uj)on the death of Mr. N. F. Car
den, Jr., in 1962, the department went
under the supervision of Mr. Cecil
Carden, the present director. Five
staff' members assist Mr. Carden:
Buddy Manning and Mrs. Katie Wat
kins, ])ressmen; Bobby Fendergraft,
l>ressman assistant; Lucille Waite,
operator of the Mimeograph section;
and Julie McDonald, secretary.
The 1,314 s(juare feet of floor space
in OOIB is now cramped with the
eciuipment that enables the depart
ment to fill the ever-increasing print
ing lu'cds of the Hospital and Uni
versity. In addition to the office
furnisliings, the dej)artment houses:
four offset presses, a power paper cut
ter, a camera, j)late making and strip
ping tables, a punch machine, Verifax
copier, a stapling machine, a folder,
the Mimeograph Department and, fi
nally, storage for several hundred
reams of paper and card stock.
^ in the Medical Center
The daily investment of time and
talent made by the six people in this
department is invaluable to the op
erations of the Hospital aiul Univer
sity. This w’as dramatically j)roven
in 1963, when the department saw
the fruits of hard labor in a gross
production record of $75,000, a figure
which reveals the impressive volunui
of work turned out in a year’s time.
Epilepsy Clinic to be
Established
The U. S. Public Health Service
has granted $15,616 to the Duke Uni
versity Medical Center for the estab
lishment of a clinic for evaluation of
special epileptic disorders.
Dr. John B. Pfeiffer, associate pro
fessor of medicine in the Duke Uni
versity School of Medicine, has been
named to direct the iiroject. He states
that the Duke clinic, wliich will spe
cialize in evaluation and treatment of
epilepsy victims who might benefit
from surgical procedures, will be part
of a statewide j)rogram to reach the
large number of people in the state
who are victims of epileptic seizures
and wlio, for one reason or another,
have not received the treatment that
is available.
INTERCOM
Published by Duke University
Medical Center and Duke Hospital
Auxiliary.
Editors
Evelyn S. Stead
Barrie Wallace
Comaiittee
Elon II. Clark
Charles II. Frenzel
George B. Kantner
Betty Leach
Don Seaver
Virginia Swain
Nina Waite
Peggy S. Warner
Mailing address: Box 2895, Duke
Hospital, Durham, N. C.