A. C. LEE
July 21, 1930
1,000,000 Patients
It was a hot summer day—July 21,1930—when the Duke University Medical Center
opened its doors and the first patient was registered.
Patient No. 1 was Arthur Carl Lee, who is 86 and still'tiving in Charlotte.
Last week—on May 22, 1973—just two months short of 43 years after the medical
center opened, Duke registered its one millionth patient with the birth of Craig Anne
Lake.
A story in the right column below links up those events separated by 43 years.
CRAIG ANNE LAKE
May 22,1973
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Births Drugs, Aging Are the Subjects
Of 3 Conferences Here Next Week
The span of human life, from conception and birth to old age
and death, will be under intensive discussion at the medical
center during the coming week.
The discussions will center in three separate meetings which
will draw several hundred participants and guest faculty
members from throughout the United States.
The three-symposium week will begin on Tuesday with
Psychopharmacology in the Management of the Elderly
Patient"—a two-day meeting that will explore the many roles of
drugs in the care and treatment of the elderly.
Thursday will begin a three-day national conference on
"Successful Aging." On the program will be one of the
country's most successful agers. Dr. Paul Dudley White, who
will address an open session Saturday morning.
On Friday and Saturday the Hospital Amphitheater will be
the setting for the ninth "E. C. Hamblen Symposium on
Reproductive Biology and Family Planning."
Additional details of the three programs are contained in the
columns below:
Successful Aging Drugs and the Elderly Hamblen Symposium
This conference's goal is to focus
national attention on the characteristics
of successfully aging persons.
Sessions wiU be in the Paul M. Gross
Chemical Laboratory.
Dr. George Maddox, director of the
Center for the Study of Aging and
Human Development, will deliver the
keynote address Thursday morning,
followed by a discussion on "What Does
Successful Aging Mean?"
Six concurrent workshops that
afternoon will touch on aging and its
relationships to adaptation, creativity and
politics; the media's attitude toward
aging; mental health services; and death.
Discussion sessions will continue that
night.
Friday's program will center on
"Models of Successful Aging" with
repeats of the workshops that afternoon.
The dinner speaker Friday night will
be Congressman Richardson Preyer of
North Carolina.
Saturday morning's program will begin
with "How to Help People Age
Successfully," followed at 11:30 by an
address, open to the public, on "Aging
Successfully" by Dr. Paul Dudley White.
The 86-year-old Dr. White is perhaps
best associated in the public's mind with
his role as a cardiologist and physician to
President Eisenhower and as an advocate
of bicycle riding.
Conference chairman is Dr. Eric
Pfeiffer, associate professor of psychiatry,
who noted that "aging has its deficits, but
the real central issue is how people adapt
to it. The purpose is not to stay young, to
deny aging, but to adapt to age
successfully."
The increasing number and complexity
of drugs available to treat the elderly
patient often create a dilemma for
physicians and nurses charged with their
care.
The conference will center on a better
understanding of current information
about drugs in treatment of the elderly.
Sessions will be held in Zener
Auditorium of the Sociology-Psychology
Building.
Tuesday morning's program will
include the topics "Drugs, Physicians and
Patients," "Drug Management in the
Aged Disturbed Patient" and "Nursing
Responsibilities in Drug Management," a
panel discussion.
The afternoon program will be "Basic
Neurophysiology-pharmacology," with
discussions of the biochemistry, side
effects and interaction of drugs.
The dinner speaker Tuesday will be
Dr. Ewald Busse, chairman of the
Department of Psychiatry, who will talk
on "Hope of Rejuvenation."
Informal discussions will take place
following dinner. Subjects will include
diagnosing and treating neurologic
disorders in the elderly and management
of the elderly in institutions and private
hospitals.
Wednesday's program topics are
"Reassessment of Selected Drug
Management Problems in the Elderly
Patient," "Anti-Parkinson Agents: A
Reappraisal" and "Alcohol Problems in
the Aging Patient."
The conference chairman is Dr. W. D.
Fann, assistant professor of psychiatry
and assistant professor of pharmacology.
The symposium honors the late Dr.
Edwin C. Hamblen, professor of
obstetrics and gynecology, who founded
the Division of Endocrinology and
directed it from 1937-63.
Sessions will be held in the Hospital
Amphitheater.
Topics on the morning program Friday
will include "Gonadotropin Receptors in
Ovarian Tissues," "Biological Activities of
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Dr. Raymond Lake was working in t[ie
emergency room Tuesday afternoon. May
22.
He was busy, he recalls, having just
admitted some patients, when "I looked
up and there was Susan."
When her husband left to come to
work that morning, Mrs. Lake said she
had no indication that this would be the
day. But later in the morning she began
feeling the signs of labor. Toward the
early afternoon she got ready and asked a
neighbor, Beth Crawford, to drive her to
the hospital.
At 8:54 that night Mrs. Lake gave
birth to a six-pound, three-ounce baby
girl—and the baby became Duke's one
millionth patient since the first patient
was registered nearly 43 years ago.
The next day an arrangement of roses
was ordered by Duke Hospital and
delivered to an office on the first floor.
The man who runs that office took the
flowers and went to Mrs. Lake's room on
Williams Ward, but Mrs. Lake was talking
on the telephone so he quietly left the
flowers in the room.
The next day when he went back to
call on Mrs. Lake again, she was
apologetic.
"I'm sorry," she said, "I didn't
recognize who you were when you came
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A LITTLE PACKAGE WITH A BIG NUMBER-Jhe center of attention here is Craig
Anne Lake, who was born at 8:54 p.m. May 22 and became the medical center's one
millionth patient. Dr. Stuart Sessoms, hospital director, dropped by Williams Ward to
see Craig Anne and her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Lake. (Photo by Jimmy
Wallace)