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Editor Elaine R. Spalding
Editorial Committee George Hack, Elon Clark, Sam
Agnello, Cecil McClees, S. Douglas Smith, M. Daugherty.
Writers. . . . Grace McClees, Jay Cook, Frances Patterson
Published monthly by and for the staff of Duke Univer
sity Medical Center, Box 3354, Durham, North Carolina.
FROM THE DESK OF... CHARLES H. FRENZEL
The task of keeping the Medical Center complex in a
state of good repair and of installing more efficient,
up-to-date mechanical equipment is a very demanding one.
It requires the skill of many engineering and building
trades. It utilizes many man hours of work on a seven-
day, twenty-four hour per day week.
Keeping buildings and grounds attractive and function
al is not, however, the responsibility of a maintenance
force alone; it is everyone's job. A little thoughtful
ness and pride in the organization will prevent much
damage to buildings and equipment. Immediate reporting
of a mal-functioning door, window, or machine will
eliminate a major repair later. We should all feel we
have the right, yes, even the obligation, to correct the
person who is thoughtlessly damaging our Medical Center.
Building equipment and systems, like medical equipment,
are constantly being improved upon and are often fast
becoming obsolete when they are installed. It is diffi
cult to make decisions as to when expenditures for re
placements are justified by the improvement in perfor
mance or economy of new equipment. It is not always
economical to use obsolete equipment until it wears out.
Medical equipment, like building equipment is re
searched and tested before it is made available but
there is no assurance that it will operate successfully
for a given institution. We have had, and will continue
to have, problems of this type. A sound preventive
maintenance program can keep these to a minimum.
Recent years have found our Maintenance and Engineering
Department faced with the added task of major renovation
projects. They have found it increasingly more diffi
cult to keep up with our needs. Despite these pressures
they have done a commendable job and are now adjusting
their staffing in order to meet our growing requirements.
Maintenance of a medical center as large as ours is a
big job; it requires the help of all of us if it is to
be done effectively.
President Johnson sent a presidential aide, Mr. James
Carter to Dr. Reeves' funeral here at Duke. Mr. Carter
went to the Reeves' home afterwards to extend the Presi
dent's personal sympathies to the family, as well as to
express his appreciation for Dr. Reeves' contributions
to our nation.
PROFESSIONAL NEWS
The Duke University Medical Center and the Statler
Hilton Hotel in Durham, will be the scene of the 23rd
Regional Conference on Disaster Medical Care sponsored
by the American Medical Association Committee on Dis
aster Medical Care of the Council on National Security
in cooperation with the State Medical Society. George
W. Paschal, Jr., M.D. of Raleigh is Program Chairman.
Among the topics to be discussed are Emergency Resource
Plans at the State and National Levels, Role of Med
icine in Emergency Preparedness, Hurricane Beulah,
and the Mt. Washington Cog Railroad Train Disaster.
Purpose of the conference is to promote and assist in
the development of state and local programs of medical
preparedness for disaster.
On Feb. 14 at 3 p.m., a meeting of the LPN's at Duke
Medical Center was held with Miss Bedard and Mrs,
Stitch present. The purpose of this meeting was to
organize the LPN's on the staff at Duke. Mrs. Eliza
beth Jones MPDC acted as chairman and Mrs. Villines of
the pediatric clinic acted as secretary. A temporary
nominating committee was appointed: Mrs. Onnie Rogers,
Chairman; Mrs. L. Prince, Mrs. Hamm, Mrs. Dorothy
McNeil, Mrs. Jessie Smith, Mrs. Nutt, Mrs. Lynch and
Mrs. Harper. This committee met Feb. 19 to select a
slate of officers and again on February 23.
The American Orthopaedic Association has just sponsored
the first National Residents Meeting for Residents in
training in Orthopaedic Surgery. The meeting was held
in Pittsburgh. Members of the Duke Orthopaedic train
ing program whose papers were accepted for presentation
were Dr. Robert Mathews and Dr. Michael O'Neil, who
presented a paper concerning arthritis of the hip and
the relationship to gout. Dr. James Urbaniak presented
a paper concerned with management of lacerations of the
flexor tendon of the thumb. Others from Duke attending
the meeting were Dr. Harry Bailey, Dr. Richard Nasca.
There were about 300 residents from all over the
Country attending.
Dr. J. Leonard Goldner was the guest of the Medical
Society in Charleston, West Virginia, on March 12 and
13, and participated in an arthritis clinic at two
local hospitals during that same visit. Dr. Goldner
was then in Dallas, Texas, on March 15 and 16, for
a meeting of the directors of Orthopaedic Training
Programs, concerned with changes in curriculum. And
on Thursday evening, March 28, and Friday, March 29,
Dr. Goldner will be the guest of the Delaware State
Crippled Children's Division, meeting at the A.I. du-
Pont Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. The conference
will cover the management of cerebral palsy and prob
lems in the upper and lower extremities.
the physician of tomorrow will fit into one of three
major categories—the Physical Science physician,
the Community Health-Social Science physician, or the
Health Care Consultant physician, according to Dr,
Morton D. Bogdonoff, here at Duke and Editor of the
Archives of Internal Medicine. "This tripartite div-
ision of the physician group," says Dr. Bogdonoff,
"is merely the eventual outgrowth of what is happening
at the present time.". He outlined his thoughts on the
future of medical practice in an editorial in the
current issue of the professional publication.