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4 Comments Ambulatory Nursing Mr. and Mrs. David Lowe had a baby girl Feb. 20. David is a PA at the Inpatient Rehab Unit . . . Charles Jay, PCA II, transferred to the Orthopaedic Qlinic from the IRU. Reporter: Jeannie Arena Telephone Exchange Suzanne Disque and Camilla Clark are new telephone operators. Reporter: Joyce Shoe Welch Ward Liz Allred, RN, recently had a baby . . . Gloria Sellars is expecting . . . Gwendolyn Foxworth, a graduate of Hampton Institute in Hampton, Va., is a new RN . .. The ward hopes for a quick recovery for Mollie Ford, PCA who has been out sick for several weeks. Reporter: Jerry Moseley Third West Betty Morgan is the proud mother of a new baby boy . . . Debra Farrington is a new ward clerk . . . Grechen Pretty is on maternity leave . . . Janet Tudor resigned and moved to Glen Falls, N.Y. . . . Pattie Prasher moved to Grand Rapids, Mich , . . Pauline Freshney transferred to another service . . . Brad Lewis, RN, is working temporarily on the ward. Reporter: Diane Wilson Business Office New faces include Virginia Muir in the insurance office and Barbara Holmes in bookkeeping. Reporter: Don Cheek Cabell Ward RN Janet Carroll and her husband Larry, an intern, had a baby boy Feb. 22. Named Andrew Taylor, he weighed 9 lbs. 9 oz. and was 21 inches long . . . Violet Wright is a new RN on Cabell B . . . LPN John Webb resigned. Reporter: Kathleen Ennen Medical PDC Freida Hoffman, part-time file clerk, married Charles Brannon last month. . . The Medical PDC welcomes back Chris Gravitte, switchboard operator, and Gail Chappel, in patient processing, who were recently inpatients at Duke. Reporter: Kitty Taylor Microbiology Carolyn Parrish is a new secretary . . . Lynn Howard, formerly secretary, is now a technician for Dr. Thomas Graf. Reporter: Terry Sprague Strudwick Ward Mary Saunders transferred to Holmes Ward . . . Mary Breeden transferred to McDowell . . . Julia Taylor took a week's cruise in the Carribean. Reporter: Annie Medlin Office of Public Relations Box 3354 Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina 27710 Heart Station (continued from page one) picture of the heart, a more sophisticated type of EKG. Dot Jones, VCG technician, now averages 40 vectorcardiograms a week. The Heart Station's expanded services have not been limited to the Hospital, however. By means of a Magnavox 850, Duke can send and receive EKG's over the telephone and has been doing so with Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham, N.C., for about a year now. Richmond Memorial does not have a staff cardiologist, but they do have this same machine by which their EKG's can be read at Duke. The Magnavox 850 (consisting of a maching about the size of a typewriter and a phone) transmits an EKG in approximately six minutes. A Duke cardiologist then interprets it and phones back the reading. Only within the last year has the machine been able to send a graph of an EKG without the patient being hooked up to it. Presently, Duke receives about 65 requests per month from the Rockingham hospital. Although the Medical Center anticipated that the transition from the old to the new system of operation would take a number of years, it became fully operational in just a few months. Because of improved service and machinery and highly efficient planning, the Heart Station is now able to process 40,000 EKG's a year. BIRTHDAY EVERY FOUR Birthdays are going to be rare occasions for little Leigh Anne Kramer, born at Duke on the day that comes only once every four years-Feb. 29. Leigh Anne, pictured above with her mother, was one of eight babies born at Duke on leap year day. Her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Kramer, have two other children, a boy and a girl. Dr. Kramer is chief resident on neurosurgery, (staff photo) LEAVING DUKE? If you are, take Intercom with you. The Public Relations Office will mail Intercom free of charge anywhere in the United States. Contact us at ext. 4148 or send a note to Box 3354, Hospital Mail.
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