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Things Going Up and Coming Down For New \mm Facility There were many sighs to be heard when the lovely fall- colored leaves came tumbling down with their trees behind Baker House. The sighs were soon followed by facial grimaces and headaches brought on by the incessant RATTTTTTTTTTTT of the drill as Baker House porch came down. Depression followed. But we have been told to keep lip the work and wait for the facic of progress—that being in this instance the new Rehabili tation Facility. The facility is expected to be completed within a year, at Avhich time Baker House may be empty if the noise of progress continues at its present volume. All levity aside, the facility will be a grand addition to the medical center and is the first of three units being built to expand Duke’s role in the growing field of rehabilitation. The facility will be two stories high and will house areas for the rehabilitation of surgical pa tients, speech and hearing diag nosis and therapy, orthodontic therapy, and offices. It will be connected directly to the Out- Patient Department by a short corridor. The unit, estimated at costing .$850,000, is being financed by the medical center, the North Carolina Medical Care Commis sion, and the State Office of Vo cational Rehabilitation. In November of 19G7 construc tion will begin on pha.se two of the rehabilitation unit, which is estimated to cost about $1.1 mil lion. The second unit will con tinue the expansion of the re habilitation services. First the trees came down . . . and then the porch . structed at the back of Baker House. . to make way for the new Eehabilitatioii Facility being con- The third phase, not yet funded, will provide in-patient beds for rehabilitation patients, said ilr. Louis E. Swanson, assis tant administrator in charge of planning and development for all medical center construction. “More emphasis is being placed nationally on the impor tance of rehabilitation services to patients who need assistance to adjust to their disabilities in the transition period between the hospital and their homes,” he noted. “In this respect,” he added. “Duke is taking a forward step in meeting the needs. AYe’ve always been involved in reha bilitating patients, but our new facilities, part of the ongoing expansion plans for the entire university, will enable us to do an even better job.” nmi] I 13 g a.itJli: J: a a a j The new Rehabilitation Facility ... as it will appear when completed—which should be during 1967. -McDowell, Contiiiued- cal ovariotomy, McDowell wrote that the operation took “about twenty-five minutes,” and that the ovarian tumor extracted— partly cystic and partly solid— weighed a total of twenty-two and a half pounds. It was also recorded that Mrs. Crawford wa.s out of bed in five days and had returned home in twenty- five days. Beyond a general descrij)tion of the actual surgery, little more INTERCOM - 9 is known of this operation or the seven others like it that also proved successful; for McDowell kept few personal notes on his surgery, and he published only two reports during his career (both on the ovarian operation). It is when we stop to consider the crude conditions under which this operation (and all the others) were performed that we realize what a remarkable sur geon McDowell must have been (not to mention his patients!). There were no trained atten dants, no anesthetics, and no antiseptics. There were rarely any colleagues with whom to consult, and the nearest hospital was a thousand miles away. In addition to all of these other drawbacks, there was no estab lished surgical procedure to fol low in performing an ovarioto my, as one had never been i)er- formed before. Although his ovariotomies were the first to be performed, McDowell received very little in the way of professional atten tion or praise during his life time. And it was not until 1879, years after his death, that he was first called the “father of ovariotomy,” a title given him by Sir Spencer Wells that has remained attached to the sur geon’s name ever since. VOL 13 NO. 8/1966
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