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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 6
FEBRUARY 12, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Medical Center
Sefs Records
For Year 1970
You may grumble about those seven
heavy bags of groceries you have to cart
home from the supermarket each week to
fix meals for your family, but to the
Duke Dietetics Department, that's just a
drop in the kettle.
Employes in dietetics at the Medical
Center prepared and served an average of
3,943 meals a day during 1970—a total of
1,438,118 for the year.
Another seven-figure statistic likely to
make any homemaker gasp is that last
year the Medical Center's laundry
processed some 3,733,787 pounds of
wash. And, believe it or not, that figure is
less than the year before thanks to the
increasing use of disposable linens.
Other statistics, compiled by Miss
Nina Waite, reports officer in the
Hospital's financial division, show that
1,843,139 laboratory tests and 152,075
radiological procedures were performed
on our patients last year.
There were 358 members of the
medical staff of Duke Hospital in 1970
along with 363 interns and resident
physicians. Other Hospital employes
numbered 2,281. Together they provided
235,405 days of care to 23,179 Hospital
patients last year.
The average stay at Duke was 10.16
days.
Medical Center physicians performed
12,408 operations and delivered 1,852
babies.
The number of outpatients tallied
300,601 in 1970-130,337 in the
Outpatient Department, 142,571 in the
private diagnostic clinics, and 27,693 in
the Emergency Department.
Miss Frances C. Jeffers,
affiliated with Duke's Center for the
Study of Aging and Human Development
for some 15 years, was honored at a
retirement party recently hosted by Dr.
Ewald Busse, pictured with her above,
chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry. Miss Jeffers, formerly on the
staff of the Duke School of Nursing,
served as executive secretary for the
center, as a research associate in the
Geriatrics Research Program, and as
executive secretary and editor for the
Duke Council on Aging and Human
Development, (staff photo)
Leaving Duke?
Employes and students who are
leaving the Medical Center can keep up
with Duke through the Intercom. The
Office of Public Relations will mail
Intercom free of charge to anyone
requesting it. To put your name on our
mailing list, phone Mrs. Hayes at the
Public Relations Office, extension 4148
or send a card to Box 3354, Hospital
Mail.
Dr. Bradford
Now Acting
For Dr. Long
Dr. William D.
Bradford, assoc i ate
professor of pathology and
assistant professor of
pediatrics, has taken on a
new title as acting director
of undergraduate medical
education for the Duke
School of Medicine.
He replaces Dr. E.' Croft Long who
recently began a leave of absence to serve
as field director in Guatemala for the
Division of International Medical
Education of the Association of American
Medical Colleges.
Based in Guatemala City, Dr. Long is
working in the fields of allied health
personnel training and public health. He
plans to return to Duke at the end of his
assignment.
Dr. Bradford, who first came to Duke
as a research fellow in pathology in 1965,
received the 1969 Golden Apple Award
from Duke medical students for
excellence in teaching in the basic science
fields.
He is a 1954 graduate of Amherst
College in Massachusetts and earned his
M. D. degree from Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland in 1958.
Dr. Bradford served an internship In
pathology and assistant residency in
pediatrics at the Children's Hospital
Medical Center in Boston. He was chief
resident in pathology at the Boston
Lying-In and Free Hospital for Women.
Prior to coming to Duke, Dr. Bradford
was a teaching fellow in pathology at
Harvard Medical School.
He is married to the former Anne
Harden and they have two children.