Dukk Univehsit'^ Medkui. Ghntkr, InikhGom
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Front, back or side—anywhere you look—the site of the Medi
cal Center’s new “front door” is full of trucks, cranes, workmen
and supplies. This is how the new Main Entrance Building
looked in mid-September. InterCom hopes to keep you up-to-
date with a pictorial record of progress as the building goes up.
(Duke photos by Sparks)
Chaplaincy Service
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Service. Chaplain Aitkoii and his
staff are “on call” 24 hours every day
of tlie week answering recjuests foi-
assistance. These requests may come
from the patient himself, the family
and frieiids of the patient, the home
town minister or the liospital staff.
When requested, a visit from a local
rabbi, priest or a j)articular protestant
minister will be arrang;ed.
For those who have known emer-
grency and crisis, sickness and pain,
the Chaplaincy Service will have a
special meaninp:. It is gfood to know
that Duke has such a service as this
to offer and that the need for comfort
and understandinpT is heeded.
Supl’s Corner
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meet the recommendations; others are
planned. We are j>roud of our ac
creditation hut, more importantly, we
will strive to make patient care at
Duke Hosi)ital th(> best available any
where.
ATTENTION:
MEDICAL CENTER
EMPLOYEES!
WE
URGE
YOU
TO . . .
take the time for good health
take a smallpox revaceination
Dr. Long to Costa
Rica
Dr. Caroline Long, Research Asso
ciate in surgery, left in September for
two months in Co.sta Rica. She will
serve as a consultant in virology for
the Institute of Health in Costa Rica.
The Costa Rica assignment was made
by the World Health Organization of
the United Nations.
Dr. Long, describing her a.ssign-
ment, explained, “This will re])resent
an expansion of their current labora
tory facilities in Costa Rica. And it
will be jiredominautly to start a tissue
culture techniciue for the isolation and
typing of respiratory vii-uses. ”