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Dean Brown
DEAN BROWN ATTENDS COFFEE HOUR
The regular monthly cof
fee hour for the nurses was
held September 13, espec
ially to honor Dr. Myrtle I.
Brown and Miss Evelyn Bedard.
Dean Brown was appointed on
September 1, and Miss Bedard
will be acting Director of
Nursing Service as of Oct.l.
The coffee hour idea ori
ginated with the Nursing
Service Committee, chaired
by Mrs. B.J. Brooks, Head
Nurse in the Medical Out-
Patient Clinic. Mrs. Brooks
is quite enthusiastic about
the coffee hour and that it
is filling a real need.
"I've met so many people at the coffee that I wouldn't
have met otherwise...I'm way down here in the basement,
and I just don't get a chance to see many of the other
nurses in the hospital,"
she said. ยป
Over coffee and donuts, one
morning a month, all regis
tered nurses have a chance
to get to know each other
better. The Service real
ized that most nurses are
simply too busy while on
duty to do any "visiting"
in other areas of the Hosp
ital. The success of the
hour has certainly been
proven by the average atten
dance of fifty nurses.
DRAKE PAVILION OPENS
by George Mack
The Drake Pavilion, formerly the Inpatient Ambulatory
Unit (lAU), opened on September 18th at the Statler-Hilton
Inn on Erwin Road. The expanded facility will have 45 beds
representing Duke's minimal care component of "progressive
patient care." The Drake Pavilion, is staffed and equip
ped to operate just as any other patient ward in the hosp
ital, the only difference being that it is physically set
apart from the main hospital complex.
Immediately below the Drake Pavilion, on the basement
level of the Statler-Hilton Inn, is the Priv. Diagnostic
Clinic Annex which will be opening on or about October 1st.
The PDC Annex, as it will be called, affords examination
diagnostic and treatment services to Pavilion patients as
well as private outpatients. The Unit Administrator for
the Drake Pavilion and the PDC Annex is Mr. Bruce Miller,
a graduate of Duke University who has returned from Blue-
field, W. Va. to assume these new duties. Mrs. Joanne
Dalton, wife of Dr. Frank Dalton, is the Head Nurse in
charge of the two facilities.
DID YOU KNOW THAT
The telephone switchboard in the hospital serves the en
tire University and not just the Medical Center? ... that
the average operator handles 500-700 calls in a day? ...
that in the past three weeks, since the students have re
turned, the number of calls received in a day has risen
from 2,000 to 4,000? ... that Mrs. Teasley handled over
1.8 million calls in 15 years? ... and men think their wives
spend too much time on the phone at home I
Miss Bedard
GREETINGS: FROSH ! KUDOS: GRADS!
White coats and equipment awaited the arrival of the 91
new students to the School for Medicine September 5. The
Medical School's Class of 1971 was greeted by Dr. W.G.Anlyan,
Dean of the School of Medicine, by Dr. Richard Portwood
and Tom Henley, President ot the Medical Students AMA who
addressed the students at their first session. Then a re
ception was given for the students at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Anlyan the evening of September 6.
Twenty students have entered the School of Medical Tech
nology of the Duke University Medical Center for the school
year 1967-68 according to an announcement by Dr. Thomas D.
Kinney, Chairman, Department of Pathology and Director of
the School of Medical Technology and Dr. A. Wendell Musser,
Associate Director of the School of Medical Technology and
Director of The Allied Health Educational Progrsm. Several
of the students, who are receiving Senior Credits for their
Medical Technology curriculum at the Duke University Medical
Center, will receive their college degrees at the completion
of their twelve months of study here.
With the growing demand for medical technologists in hos
pitals, medical research centers, private medica.1 laborat
ories, and in industry, the profession is open to qualified
young men and women whose goal is a career in the Allied
Health Professions.
Dr. Thomas D. Kinney, Chairman, Department of Pathology
and Director of the School of Medical Technology and Dr.
A. Wendell Musser, Associate Director of the School of Med
ical Technology and Director of the Allied Health Education
al Program jointly announced that twelve recent graduates
of the Duke University Medical Center School of Medical
Technology passed the national certification examination
conducted by the Board of Registry of Medical Technologists
of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Those
who pass the certification examination are eligible for the
professional designation MT (ASCP). Teaching supervisor of
the Duke school is Miss Mary S. Britt, who joined the staff
last June. The graduates:
Miss Jacquelyn Ann Baston
Mrs. Judith McLaughlin Bates
Miss Paula Paris Brewer
Mrs. Camilla Walters Crampton
Miss LaVonne Dreschel
Mrs. Carolyn Kay G. Harris
Miss Madleine Hutcheson
Miss Harriet Jones
Miss Mary Kenney
Miss Betty Lou Lawrence
Mrs. Augusta Stanley Littleton
Miss Connie Marie Sachse