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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 16
APRIL 19, 1974
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
CnaHv0 Writing by Fifth Gradm
'I Am a Whirlpool Bath at Duke Hospital’
Scheduled To Open on May 3
Durham Health Fair Focuses
On 'HeaHh-lf’s a Family Affair'
"Health: It's a Family Affair."
That's the theme for the first Durham
City-County Health Fair which will open
for two days starting Friday, May 3, on
the lawn of Lincoln Hospital, 1301
Fayetteville St.
The purpose of the fair, which has
been in the planning stages for more than
six months, is to make Durham citizens
aware of health services available to them
and to provide guidance on receiving
those services.
Planners have included representatives
from Duke, Watts, Lincoln and the VA
hospitals along with people from about
30 other health and service agencies in
the county.
Durham Mayor James Hawkins and
Durham County Commission Chairman
Dewey Scarboro will officially open the
fair at noon that Friday. The fair will run
from noon-8 p.m. that day and from 10
a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday.
Those attending the fair will have
available to them free glaucoma and
diabetes screening from the Durham
County Health Department, vision
screening from the N.C. Society for the
Prevention of Blindness, automated blood
pressure measurement from the N.C.
Heart Association and registration for
cancer detection examinations from the
American Cancer Society.
In addition the approximately 40
booths will have literature available and
staff representatives to answer questions.
Many exhibits will include audio-visual
displays.
The Environmental Protection Agency
will offer a slide show on pollution and
health; the N. C. Department of Motor
Vehicles will provide a jolting ride on a
"seat-belt convincer;" the Durham Fire
Department will demonstrate artificial
respiration and rescue practices; Hillside
High School's Health Careers Club will
offer a slide show on careers in health
services; and the School of Public Health
at UNC will provide an audiovisual
presentation on training programs it
offers in health fields.
An exhibit is being prepared by the
Division of Community Health Models, a
part of Duke's Department of
Community Health Sciences. It will be a
multi-audiovisual presentation centering
in large measure on the division's work
with residents in Bragtown, Rougemont
and Bahama and surveys of how families
seek and obtain health care.
Free snacks, soft drinks, balloons and
entertainment will be provided.
Other cooperating agencies include the
American Red Cross, Drug Rehabilitation
Center, Durham Cystic Fibrosis, N. C.
Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Durham Business
and Professional Chain, Research Triangle
Lung Association, N. C. Dairy Council,
Durham County Department of Social
Services, Citizens Concerned About
Health Care, Durham Child Advocacy
Commission.
Durham Child Guidance Clinic, N. C.
State U'iiversity Agricultural Extension
(Continued on page 2)
CLELAND SERVICE
Terry Sanford, president of the
university, has invited all members of the
Duke community to a public service of
thanksgiving in celebration of the
ministry of James T. Cleland on Sunday,
April 21, at 4 p.m. at the Chapel. A
reception will follow on the Chapel
grounds.
(Editor’s note: Throughout the school
year, hundreds of children visit us to see
how a hospital works and to learn of
career opportunities in health fields. For
the younger ones, almost everything is a
new experience in finding out how
"people take care of people." Reprinted
below are some of the creative stories
fifth graders from Mrs. Alana Parrish's
class at Parkwood Elementary School
wrote after their visit to Duke.)
I Am a Whirlpool Bath at Duke Hospital
Today a lady was put on my stretcher
and the nurse hooked it up and pushed a
button and all of a sudden she was in me!
I'm about 90 degrees and all shook up.
This lady layed in me and I made it so her
arthritis didn't hurt so much.
Another lady practiced walking in nfie
with the use of the parallel bars. The
nurse said it wouldn't put a lot of
pressure on her legs if she used me.
You can raise my walking platform so
high that it will be as high as the edge of
me and will look as if it is a solid
platform.
I can relax people's muscles and stop
the arthritis from hurting because I'm so
warm. If you have arthritis or sore
muscles come and see me. Maybe I can
help.
Jennifer Spencer
I Am a Wheelchair in Duke Hospital
The first job of the day was to take a
patient down to the gift shop. As we got
out the door the nurse fell down and I
went rolling down the hall.1 bumped into
the door, went through it, rolled down
three flights of stairs, rolled through the
open door and as I came out I hit two
walls and a nurse. The walls were okay
but the nurse flew three feet up into the
air and into the patient's lap. The next
person to come along was a doctor. He
thought it was a sex scene and fired the
nurse immediately. I was taken to the
x-ray room and they found that I had a
broken spring so I retired.
Freddie Ange
I Am a Red Blood Cell in
a Patient at Duke Hospital
Hello. My new/ owner and I just got
out of the operating room. Boy, I
remember those good old days. My
friends and I used to circulate and have
the greatest times. My friends were the
red blood cells. (I didn't like the white
ones.) It's been hard to make new friends.
All these cells in this lady's body tum
their plasma's up at me.
Well, let's get back to the good old
days. We used to play around in the heart
and run to the lungs. Then one day we
were skipping along the vein in our
owner's wrist when suddenly we got
sucked up. Then I saw my first look at
the world. I had never been around when
the lady had cut herself. Well we traveled
up a tube and into a bag with alot of
other blood cells. It was so sad. Mothers
had been parted from their husbands and
children. Almost everyone was crying.
Then we were picked up and taken
across the hall and into a room. In this
room there were lots of ladies and men.
And they had all these machines. Then
they put us down and we saw someone
typing something. Then they stuck it on.
Boy, it was right in my face. So then my
friends and I moved down to the bottom
of the bag so we could see. The syrum
separated and didn't move because it
didn't want to see.
After two days we were plunked into a
very cold box. (later on we found out it
was a refrigerator.) Then one day, ail of a
sudden we were taken out. They took some
of us out of the bag and put them in a
glass in a glass tube with a bottom in it.
(We learned later on it was a test tube.)
I was watching out of the bag when
they took some mean looking blood and
mixed it. We heard something from one
of the workers about him cross-matching
them.
They mixed real well with the other
blood so they said, "O.K." O.K. what, I
thought?
A couple hours later we were taken
out of the refrigerator and carried down
the hall, on an elevator and down a hall.
Then we were taken into a room. There
people were working on a person! Then
we were hooked up on a pole, the tube
unwound and we dripped slowly down
(Continued on page 3)
GOING TO ^V/^r^S-Don Cheek, who
has been business manager of Duke
Hospital since 1969, is leaving April 25 to
become coordinator of patient account
services at Watts Hospital. He will begin
work there the following Monday. Cheek
joined Duke in November of 1967 as the
hospital's assistant business manager.
Prior to that he was data processing
manager for the B. C. Remedy Co. in
Durham.