LONG ARM FOR A SHORT LOAD—Passers-
by and visitors to the medical center were a
little surprised fast Saturday morning to see a
huge crane being assembled in front of the
hospital. The 225,000-pound (100,000-
kilogram) crane was needed to lift a 1,700-
pound (765-kilogram) air conditioning unit
which will be used to cool a full-body scanner
being installed in the Department of
Radiology. The crane, brought to the medical
center in six sections, took four hours to
assemble. The air conditioning unit was lifted
up and over the front of the hospital and into
the well above the courtyard cafeteria. See
page 4 for more photographs . (Photos by Parker
Herring)
Duke University
Medical Center
Intercom
VOL. 25, NO. 9
MARCH 3, 1978
DURHAM, N.C.
Health day to feature 73-year-old activist
Maggie Kuhn is a self-styled "guerilla
fighter," but you'd never know it by
looking at her. She stands five feet tall,
weighs in at 95 pounds and is 73 years olu.
She lives in a quiet suburb of Philadelphia.
Shortly after her retirement in 1970,
Kuhn founded the Gray Panthers, an
activist organization that has sought to
combat agism — discrimination against
people because of their age. '
She will be in Durham on Sunday to
speak at a "Winter Health Day" in the
Parkwood community of southern
Durham County.' '
Her visit and the event it highlights are
being coordinated by Southern Health
Care, an unusual community-controlled
corporation affiliated with the
Department of Community and Family
Medicine.
The Gray Panthers have been effective
in reducing bus fares for older Americans,
insuring that nursing homes are properly
inspected and exposing fraudulent
schemes that prey on the elderly.
Kuhn and her associates have tackled
big government and big business for what
she calls their "throwaway mentality that
scrap piles old people like old
automobiles."
In addition to her talk. Winter Health
Day will feature . dozens of exhibits,
demonstrations and discussions on topics
as varied as childbirth, solar heating, first
aid, gardening, fire prevention, sexuality
' and land use planning.
Cooperative effort
All activities will be held at the
Parkwood Shopping Center and
Parkwood United Methodist Church
from 1-6 p.m., according to Liz DiCarlo,
Southern Health Care's community
facilitator.
"Winter Health Day is a cooperative
effort of individuals and groups to enable
people with concerns to interact and learn
with resource people," she explained.
"Our hope is that Winter Health Day will
encourage them to continue working
together on community matters."
Among the other subjects that will be
examined, she said, are nutrition,
exercise, eye and dental care, recrieation,
parenting, local medicinal and edible wild
plants, smoking, health careers,
recycling, legal services, airport
expansion and recreation.
"The primary emphasis will be on
personal health and environmental
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Medical center listed in 'exclusive directory'
The Duke Medical Center, the Comprehensive
Cancer Center and several physicians here have been
cited in the February issue of Town & Country
magazine.
They're included in what the magazine's front cgver
calls its "Exclusive Directory of Outstanding Physicians,
Surgeons, Hospitals and Clinics in the U.S." The
directory is in two parts, with Part II in the March issue.
"Because there is remarkably little consumer guidance
in this most crucial aspect of our lives," the article said,
referring to health care services, the magazine
"interviewed more than 80 doctors in some two dozen
specialties — representing more than 40 medical schools
and institutions — to find out which medical
professionals and health care centers are, in their
opinion, the best."
In the hospitals section, Duke was listed with Barnes
Hospital in St. Louis, Baylor University Medical Center
in Dallas, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in
New York, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,
New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center
in New York, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital iij Boston,
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, University of
California Medical Center in San Francisco, University
of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis and
Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.
Duke was listed also as the site for one of the 19
national Comprehensive Cancer Centers.
Town & Country named the following Duke
physicians among the leaders in their fields:
Dr. Andrew G. Wallace, cardiology; Dr. David F.
Paulson, urological cancer; Dr. Herbert O. Sieker,
pulmonary diseases; Dr. Will C. Sealey, thoracic surgery;
Dr. Roscoe R. Robinson, kidney disorders; Dr. James F.
Glenn, urology; and Dr. G.R. Scott Jones,
gastrointestinal surgery.
Other specialties were to be included in the second
part of the article in the March issue.-