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Pediatrics Radiology
WITAM l/V DUKE—(Or "Welcome to
Duke" for those who don't speak Polish)
Dr. Danuta Hulanicka of Warsaw, Poland,
arrived at Duke on June 23 to complete a
10-month research study in bacterial
genetics with Dr. Nicholas Kredrich,
assistant professor of medicine and
biochemistry. Dr. Hulanicka is a
postdoctoral research fellow ih
biochemistry and received her Ph.D.
degree at -the University of Warsaw in
1962. While she is studying at Duke, her
husband, 14-year-old daughter and dog
will be attending to things at home until
her return, (staff photo)
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director of the Hospital; and Julia Taylor,
RN, head nurse on Strudwick Ward.
FRIENDLY 1//S/TO/?-Snoopy, that lovable comic strip pup who spends much of
his time atop his dog house day dreaming about World War I aircraft, paid a surprise
visit to the patients on the pediatrics wards recently. Here Snoopy gives a friendly
greeting to Jerry Denny, son of Mr. and Mrs. Craig Denny of 2606 Elgin Street,
Durham. Michael Shoffner of 3922 Duke Lane, Apt. 14, looks on happily.
X-ray Silver Valuable
If you have ever wondered where your
dentist gets the silver that he neatly packs
into your teeth or where craftsmen
acquire the silver they pound into
bracelets and earrings, consider this
source of the valuable metal—old X-ray
film.
Until recent years there wasn't much
use for X-ray film that didn't become
part of a patient's permanent record.
Now the exposed waste is sold to a firm
which extracts the silver by burning the
X-ray plates at very high temperatures
and then resells it to whoever needs it. A
big moneysaver, this reclamation practice
and policy was pioneered by the Veterans
Administration hospitals.
Silver worth $2.2 million was
reclaimed from the film used in the
nation's VA hospitals in the last three
years alone.
Sidney Paine, Radiology Department
administrator,’ said that Duke gains
several thousand dollars each year in this
manner, and although the amount isn't so
large for any particular year, over the
course of many years it adds up.
LEAVING DUKE—ime Howell, RN
supervisor in the emergency room, is
leaving Duke to accompany her husband
who has been named geologist for the
South Carolina State Department in
Columbia. Friends in the emergency
room presented Mrs. Howell with a
calendar watch in appreciation of her
helpfulness and service to nursing.
Pictured are, from left to right, PCA
Willie Lynn, ALPN Jessie Smith, ALPN
Linnell Bracey, Mrs. Howell, Margaret
Messick, emergency room head nurse,
LPN Louise Sims, and Lottie Hall,
assistant head nurse, (photo by Richard
Hackel)