^Charley^ Won^t Be Coming Back
There’s a sad post script to the Charley Cooper story.
Charle); was the 10-year-old kidney dialysis patient
whose life was saved on the sidewalk in front of the
hospital on June 25 through the quick thinking of
Security Guard Martha Anne Fairchild. (Intercom, July
11).
The child apparently suffered a cardiac arrest that day
just as the family arrived by car at the front of the hospital.
Ms. Fairchild and Dr. George F. Wittkopp kept his lungs
working until the cardiac arrest team arrived, and
Wittkopp credited Ms. Fairchild’s quick administration of
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with Charley’s recovery.
At 4:30 a.m. Monday, July 14, Charley’s physician here.
Dr. Ronald Krueger, received a call at home from the
emergency room in a Conway, S.C., hospital. The Cooper
family had been trying to get Charley to Duke from their
home at Murrells Inlet, S.C. He apparently had another
cardiac seizure en route and they went to the Conway
hospital.
Krueger gave the attending physician there emergency
instructions. Subsequently the child was put into an
ambulance for the rest of the trip to Duke, but he died on
the way.
Krueger said he learned of it at 6:45 when the
ambulance driver called. The body was not brought on to
Duke but was returned to South Carolina.
In the meantime, the boy’s parents, exhausted from the
ordeal and thinking Charley was safely en route to Duke,
pulled off the highway and slept.
They arrived at Duke later in the morning, unaware of
what had happened until Krueger told them.
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 28
JULY 25,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Russian at Duke Exchanges Views
As US-USSR Meet in Space
By William Erwin
One Russian in North Carolina
didn’t watch Thomas Stafford and
Alexei Leonov shake hands in space
last week. His tube went on the blink.
But an American colleague at the
medical center saved the day when
she heard of Dr. Adolf A. Lev’s
problem. She delivered a spare TV in
time for the re-runs.
Lev is getting used to this sort of
neighborliness. “Everyone has been
friendly to me here,” he said in
perfect English.
The tousle-haired grandfather has
beens a visiting professor at Duke
since December. He’s investigating
cell membrane mechanics. In
another three months he’ll fly back to
Leningrad, where he’s a senior
researcher at the Institute of
Cytology (cell studies).
He was invited here by Dr. Daniel
C. Tosteson, former chairman of the
Physiology and Pharmacology
Department and now dean of the
University of Chicago’s Pritzker
School of Medicine.
The two had met in 1970 at an
International congress in the USSR.
Tosteson visited Lev at the
Leningrad Institute; they’ve
corresponded ever since.
What images of America will the
Russian take home with him?
Turning away from his microscope,
he listed a few.
“It’s very easy to make contact with
scientists in this country,” he said.
He said he has enjoyed his talks
with his lab partner. Dr. Hie
Ping-Beall, an adjunct assistant
professor of physiology and
pharmacology. It was Dr. Ping-Beall
who brought by the spare TV.
But he added; “It’s not possible to
find good movies. We have fewer
Westerns and detective-type films. I
must say — and I don’t mean to
offend—cjur films are more...serious.
We have more classic films.”
Lev laughed when he told of his
one brush with a lawman in Durham.
He said he was walking across the
lawn of Duke's Central Campus
Apartments about 9 o’clock one
December evening when an officer in
uniform stopped him and asked him
where he was going.
“1 told him I was going home,” the
professor recalled. He rents one of
the Central Campus Apartments.
“Then he told me: ‘You can’t walk
here. This is private property’.”
Lev said that remark took him by
surprise because “In the Soviet
Union, we have no private land
w here you can’t go.”
His everyday life in the U.S., he
said, is “more or less” like that in
Leningrad. “W'ork takes most of my
time here, and it took most of my
time there,” he explained.
He said in Leningrad he awakes
about 8 a.m. and works from 9:30
a.m. until 6 p.m. His wife, an
electronics engineer, is usually up at
6 and in the office at 8, he said.
A 10-minute program of
callistenics is broadcast on the radio
before breakfast and twice more
during the morning in the Soviet city.
For breakfast. Lev said he enjoys a
veal cutlet or spicy sausages,
porridge, fried eggs and yogurt. His
favorite mealtime drink is strong tea,
which he said is surpassing coffee in
popularity all over the Soviet Union.
With his borrowed television. Lev
didn’t miss much of the Apollo-Soyuz
mission. “I hope it will help us have a
closer relationship,” he said.
The words came naturally. For Dr.
Adolf Lev, detente is already
second-nature.
DR. THOMAS T. THOMPSON
To feel better,
vour health.
think less about
Thompson Named
Allied Health Head
Duke has a new associate director
of medical and allied health
education. Dr. Thomas T.
Thompson.
He will be responsible for the
approximately 20 allied health
programs.
At the same time, the Durham VA
Hospital appointed Thompson
associate chief of staff for education.
He has been chief of the radiology
service at the VA since January of
1970.
Along with his appointments to the
allied health post here, the University
Board of Trustees approved his
promotion to associate professor of
radiology, effective Aug. 1.
Thompson, 42, is a native of West
Virginia. He attended the University
of Virginia, earned an A.B. degree in
mathematics and physics at
Lenoir-Rhyne College and received
his M.D. degree at the Medical
College of Virginia in 1964.
Following an internship at DePaul
Hospital in Norfolk, Thompson came
to Duke for residency in diagnostic
radiology. He was chief resident at
both Du lie and the VA hospitals and
received three commendations from
the Veterans Administration for
professional ability in radiology.
BUILDING BRIDGES—Dr. Adolf A. Lev, a senior researcher at the Institute of Cytology
in Leningrad, investigates the workings of cell membranes in his lab at Duke. Dr. Lev
has been a visiting professor here since December. (Photo by ThadSparks)
TV Series Helps Many 'Feel Good'
“F'eeling Good,” public television’s adult answer to “Sesame Street,”
presents a wide variety of educational programs on health.
The series, which originated last fall and was revised in March, “has been
praised for its stimulating and thoughtful presentation of what is often
sensitive or unattractive information,” according to programmers at the
University of North Carolina Television Network, which airs the shows.
“To make the series even more valuable, the local network is presenting
local referrals so North Carolinians can know where they can turn for specific
help, a UNC-TV statement said. The series also provides subtitles to aid deaf
viewers.
“F'eeling Good” programs for the coming weeks will include the following
topics:
* VISION: “Two Eves For Keeps,"Julv 30
* DOCTOR/PATIENT COMMUNICATION: “Medical Jargon,” August 6
*TEEN ALTERNATIVES: “Show Me Something Better,” August 13
The series may be viewed on UNC-TV, channel 4, at 8 p.m. on the dates,
listed above.