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Duke University Medical Center
VOLUME 23, NUMBER 50
DECEMBER 23,1976
IDURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Helping Them
Wa k Again
By Ina Fried
Johnson Yeh has a degree in law
but he doesn't spend his days in
court. He spends them helping
patients who need braces or artificial
limbs to lead nearly normal lives.
For the past three months he has
studied here under the direction of
Bert R. Titus, director of prosthetics
(artificial limbs) and orthotics
(braces).
The successful businessman who
heads a trading company and a
knitting company in Taipei, Taiwan,
Republic of China, became
interested in prosthetics and
orthotics when "I saw a patient who
had lost an arm and was very sad,"
he said. "I tried to help her and
started to study prosthetics through
American books.
Makes Me Happy
"When an amputation patient
goes out and walks very well, he's
very happy and that makes me very
happy," he said.
In the 14 years since he established
Johnson Prosthetic and Orthotic
Laboratories in Taiwan, he has
treated about 1,200 patients.
Although he has a staff of 17, he still
sees each patient personally.
"My laboratory and equipment are
very new and progressive — the
same as the American," Johnson
said.
(Continued on page 4)
"/ JUST WON A TURKEY!"—Her happy expression was
repeated on many faces at the medical center's annual
Christmas party. See pages 2 and 3 for more photographs.
(Photo by John Becton)
Ohvas
You Get More of Them at Duke
Happy Holidays!
Whether partying or relaxing during the New Year's Holiday (actually
Dec. 31 since Jan. 1 falls on a Saturday) you'll be celebrating the first of 12
holidays for medical center employees during 1977.
By working at Duke, you'll have more holidays than you would at any of
18 other hospitals or university medical centers in the Southeast.
According to a Dec. 1975 survey by the Wage and Salary Office,
hospitals and university medical centers in Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama and Florida grant their employees
from 6 to 11 holidays a year.
Between 6 and 11 holidays also are granted by such employers as
Research Triangle Institute, Burroughs Wellcome, General Telephone, the
city of Durham, the state of North Carolina, the University of Virginia and
Wake Forest University.
The other holidays scheduled for the medical center in the new year are
Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, Sept. 5; Thanksgiving Holiday,
Nov. 24; Christmas Holiday, Dec. 26; and the employee's birthday.
In addition there are six discretionary holidays earned by full-time
medical center employees on the payroll on the first day of March, April,
May, June, August and October. These may be scheduled during the year
at the discretion of the employee with the supervisor's consent.