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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 30
AUGUST 16,1974
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
PROUD Madeleine Fraley (center), this year's winner of the Richard John
Sheele Memorial Award for academic excellence in the Physician's Associate Program,
shows off her plaque to fellow '74 graduates Landis Hackney (left) and John
McElligott. Mrs. Fraley will remain at the Medical Center, assisting doctors in the
Department of Surgery. (Photo by Bill Erwin)
43 Graduates
Nevf Physician’s Associates
To Settle in North Carolina
Thirteen new physician's associates)
have decided to begin their careers in
North Carolina.
Their decision means relief for doctors
in four rural areas of the state. It also
means that some urban doctors will be;
able to treat as many as 33 per cent more
patients, cutting the time those patients
have to wait for appointments.
The thirteen are among 43 recent
graduates of the medical center's
Physician's Associate Program—the largest
graduating class in the program's
nine-year history. They bring to 193 the
total number of Duke graduate
physician's associates, (PA's) and to 53
the total number of graduates employed
in North Carolina.
The winner of the Richard John
Sheele Memorial Award for academic
excellence this year was Madeleine A.
Fraley. She received the award plaque
from the person who first brought her to
Duke, Paul S. Toth, supervisor of PA's in
the medical center's Division of General
and Thoracic Surgery.
The Duke program got some
unrestrained praise from the evening's
guest speaker, James D. Bernstein,
director of rural health activities for
North Carolina.
"I am sure that one of the programs
Duke is most famous for nationally is the
physician's associate program," he told
the graduates, their families and friends.
"I must say that when I go around the
country, to meetings and I say I'm from
North Carolina, it never- fails that
someone says: 'Oh, isn't that where the
Duke physician's associate program is
located?' "
According to Dr. Reginald Carter,
associate director, the new PA's are fully
qualified to examine patients under a
doctor's supervision. Freed from this vital
but time-consuming task, the doctors can
spend more time in actually treating and
following up on their patients. Carter
said.
"It's not uncommon to find physicians
among rural -practices in the Southeast
who are seeing more than fifty patients a
day. We found that the average amount
of time these physicians spend with each
patient is less than five minutes," he
noted.
"But in offices with a PA plus a
physician, the time jumps to eight or nine
minutes that the patient is seen by a
professional," he pointed out.
Dr. Carter also said that physician's
associates apply and remove casts, suture
wounds, conduct after-hours lab studies
and monitor the progress of ill patients.
Four of the new PA's will be working
in North Carolina towns having fewer
than 5,000 residents.
Frederick S. Lipman has accepted a
position with the Garner Professional
Center in Garner, about 10 miles south of
Raleigh.
Russell E. Mitchell will be employed
by the Norris-Biggs Clinic of Rutherford
Hospital in Rutherfordton, about 50
miles southeast of Asheville.
William G. Vaassen will be assisting
doctors at Drexel Medical Associates, a
family practice group in the 1,431-person
town of Drexel—some 15 miles west of
Hickory.
Bound for the community of
Lawndale is Paul E. Stout, who will be
working with Dr. Richard M. Maybin.
.Lawndale, 10 miles north of Shelby, has a
population of 544.
(Continued on page 2}
Motor Vehicle Registration
To Start Here on Monday
Motor vehicle registration for medical
center personnel begins Monday.
• The registration fee is $20 and may be
paid in cash or by payroll deduction. The
motorcycle registration fee is $10.
Documents and information that must
be presented at the time of registration
are the state vehicle registration card,
valid driver's license and the name of the
vehicle insurance company.
All members of the house staff are to
register their vehicles at the House Staff
Office.
For the convenience of other medical
center personnel, the Parking and Traffic
Office again will send registrars to build
ings throughout the medical campus.
The registration schedule is as follows:
HOSPITAL—In Medical Center Board
room (first floor, yellow zojie, next to
chapel), Monday, Aug. 19, through Wed
nesday, Aug. 21, from 8 a.m.-noon,
1-4:30 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
NANALINE H. DUKE BUILDIIMG-
First floor, main entrance, Thursday, Aug.
22,8:30-11 a.m.
ALEX H. SANDS BUILDING, RE
SEARCH PARK, VIVARIUM-First floor.
main entrance. Sands Building, Thursday,
Aug. 22, 1-4:30 p.m.,
EYE CENTER—Conference room, sec
ond floor, Friday, Aug. 23, 8:30-11 a.m.
PICKENS, CHILD GUIDANCE, CIVI-
TAN—Pickens basement conference room,
Friday, Aug. 23, 1-4:30 p.m.
BELL BUILDING-Room 314, Mon
day, Aug. 26, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
HANES HOUSE, HANES ANNEX,
GRADUATE CENTER—(registration for.
faculty, staff and employees) Hanes
House lobby, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 8:30
a.m.-4:30 p.m.
HANES HOUSE, HANES ANNEX,
GRADUATE CENTER-(registration for
nursing and graduate center students)
Hanes House lobby, Wednesday, Sept. 4,
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
New parking decals must be displayed
by Sept. 1. With the exception of the
registration scheduled at Hanes House on
Sept. 4, all others who want to register
vehicles after Sept. 1 may do so at the
Parking and Traffic Office, 314 Bell Build
ing, from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-
Friddy.
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Anatomy Prof. Hetherington Dies
Dr. Duncan C. Hetherington, professor
emeritus of anatomy, died Wednesday
night, Aug. 7, in Duke Hospital. He would
have been 79 the following day.
Death resulted from a heart attack, but
Dr. Hetherington had been ill for several
months and had been hospitalized since
May.
He was one of Duke's earliest faculty
members, coming here in July of 1930
from Vanderbilt as an associate professor
of anatomy. He became a full professor in
1945.
From 1930 until 1947 he was in charge
of microscopic and neuroanatomy. When
departmental responsibilities were divided
in 1947, he retained directorship of
microscopic anatomy until his retirement
in August of 1965.
After retiring from the Duke faculty,
he taught microscopic anatomy at the
University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill for two years.
;Dr. Hetherington was born in Denver,
Colo., in 1895. He earned an A.B. degree
at Colorado College in 1919 and an M.A.
at the University of Illinois the following
year.
He received a Ph.D. in parasitology at
the University of Illinois in 1922 and
earned his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins
University in 1926. For the next four
years, prior to joining the Duke faculty.
Dr. Hetherington was an instructor in
anatomy at the Vanderbilt School of
Medicine.
Dr. Hetherington was a member of
several academic honoraries, including
Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha,
honor medical society, and he was active
in numerous professional organizations,
(Continued on page 3)
DUNCAN HETHERINGTON