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Page 4 Duke Univeksity Medicai, Center, InterCom ACCOLADE To the Patient Service Representatives Pictured liere are two of our three Patient Service Representatives—to the rifjht, Mrs. Julie Hurt and to tlie left Mrs. Anna IIiill—chatting: with Mr. J. C. Garrison on Cushing Ward. Not pictured is Mrs. Prances Lovell. (Photo by R. Mckee) No doubt you see these Representatives every day, dressed in their navy skirts and white blouses, goini? along tlie wards “welcoming” new patients, revisiting old t>atients, and runiung errands for both. These three Patient Service Representatives are ))art of a service that was created here at Duke in December, l!)(i(). Tlie puri)ose of this service, stated then, was; “Shortages of personnel in many categories and tlie lack of social service coverage has left a considerable gap in the .services that we now offer our patient.s. It is in an effort to fill this gap that we have inaugurated this Patient Service Re])resentative function.” The Patient Service Representatives reported in a 1963 job survey that most of their hours were spent in the following ways: (1) return visits to inpatients; (2) personal services for inpatients; (8) ari’angements for patients remaining in Durham for outpatient care or treatment; (4) room ing arrangements for family members or patients; and (5) contacting iiew patients. In the midst of the starched and often impersonal hu.stle and bustle that goes with hospital care, it is good to know that here at Duke we have three Patient Service Representatives who evei'y day add a v(*ry necessary meas ure of “warmth.” An “accolade,” therefore to Mrs. Anna Hull, Mrs. Frances Lovell and Mrs. Julie Hurt. INTERCOM Published by Duke I’nivcrsity Medical Center and Duke Hospital Auxiliary. Editors Evelyn S. Stead Barrie Wallace Committee Elon II. Clark Charles H. Frenzel George B. Kantner Betty Leach Wes Lefler Don Seaver Virginia Swain Nina Waite Pegf?y S. Warner flailing addi-e.ss: Box 2895, Duke IIos[)ita], Durham, N. C. Assistant Deans Named Dr. E. Croft Long has been ap pointed assistant dean for medical stu dent affairs, and Dr. Herbert 0. Sieker has been named a.ssistant dean for coordination of educational affairs. Since 1959 Dr. Joseph E. Markee has served as assistant dean in charge of admissions, and Dr. William M. Nich olson, as assistant dean in charge of postgraduate education. Creation of two additional assistant deanships reflects the multiplicity of responsibilities which confront Dean Anlyan as the Medical ('enter and Medical School expand their activi ties. New Students Arrive With the opening of the academic year the schools of medicine and nurs ing w'elcomed their freshmen classes: 80 students to the medical school and 81 to the nui-sing school. In the School of Medicine the fre.sh- men come from 43 schools, colleges and universities in 25 states. Five are from Durham: Stephen B. Baylin, John M. H. Hart, Jay E. Hopkins, Mrs. Gitta I. W. Jackson, and Rebecca G. Trent. School of Nursing freshmen arrived from 22 states and included three students from Durham: Char lotte Ann Matthews, Patrice Elaine Patterson, and Carlan Turner.
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