If you want to say good-bye
Is a cigarette an "old friend" you
cannot say good-bye to?
If you would like to leam how to say
good-bye for good. The Durham
County Unit of the American Cancer
Society (ACS) may be able to help.
Tlie organization is sponsoring a
Quit Smoking Clinic beginning April
17.
It is a four-week program with two
sessions each week, from 7-8:30 p.m.
on Mondays and Thursdays.
The clinic will be held at the
Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian
Church. A $5 registration fee is
necessary to cover the church's
expenses.
To obtain registration forms or
more information, call the ACS office,
286-7943, weekday mornings, or write
Quit Smoking Chnic, P.O. Box 2893,
Durham 27705.
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Professional news
Dr. John Laszlo, professor of medicine and
director of clinical research for the
Comprehensive Cancer Center, was the guest
speaker at the kickoff meeting for the Wake
County Cancer Society Crusade. His topic was
"Progress in Cancer Diagnosis and
Treatment."
Dr. Barbara P. McCool, associate, professor
of health administration, spoke on
"Developing a Hospital Based Human
Resource Development Program" at a meeting
of the Pennsylvania Hospital Association in
Gettysburg, March 16.
She will address the Ohio Hospital
Association in Cincinnati April 6 on "Change
Strategies for Managers."
McCool has been named to a three-year
term on the appeals panel for the American
Dietetic Association.
Health sciences
have own ^Emmys^
Videotapes from throughout the
country will be judged here April 11 and
12 as part of national competition
sponsored by the Health Sciences
Communications Association.
Sam A. Agnello, director of the
Division of Audiovisual Education, is
coordinator of the judging. Dr. Howard
Chatterton of Duke's Family Medicine
Program and representatives from five
other medical centers will make up the
rest of the judging panel.
Between 60 and 70 entries are
expected. The competition, to recognize
outstanding achievement in the use of
television for education in the health
sciences, is supported by the Network for
Continuing Medical Education.
Dr. John D. Shelburne, assistant professor
of pathology and director of the Diagnostic
Electron Microscopy Lab, was on the faculty of
the course in Diagnostic Electron Microscopy
at the International Academy of Pathology
meeting in Atlanta March'9-10.
WHICH WAY?—Arthur Woodruff, a patient at Drake Pavilion, asks head nurse Rosa Steele for
directions. Drake Pavilion is a Duke Hospital ward located on the basement level of the Hilton Inn.
Patients admitted to Drake are ambulatory Duke patients, many of whom travel by bus to the
medical center during the day for tests and diagnostic treatments. Patients are allowed to go out
for meals, go shopping, swim in the pool, use the exercise room at the hotel, drive their own car
and participate in other activities as long as those activities are approved by their physician.
Woodruff and his wife have been coming from Tennessee to Duke for treatments for the past 15
years. This is Woodruff's third stay at Drake Pavilion. IPIioh hy Parker Herring)
coin
LOOKING BACK
From the Intercom of April 1954
For the eighth consecutive year, Duke Hospital admitted a record number of patients during 1953, co-superintendents L. E.
Swanson and J. M. Pyne have announced. Some 17,475...were admitted to the hospital last year, and patients also made 168,558
visits to the public and private outpatient clinics.
A special two-day conference on spinal cord injuries got underway here Thursday for medical personnel from throughout the state. Dr. ]ames H. Semans
(was) program chairman...
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Intercom
is published weekly by the Office of Public
Relations, Duke University Medical
Center, Box 3354, Durham, N.C. 27710.
Joe Sigler
Director
John Becton
Editor
Primary contributors: William Erwin,
Comprehensive Cancer Center medical
writer; Ina Fried, staff writer; Parker
Herring, public relations assistant; Edith
Roberts, staff writer; David Williamson,
medical writer.
Cimtlaljoni-Antv Kittrell.
Have you seen the signs posted around "Are YOU a Litter-Bug ?" They are aimed at the ones who are careless in throwing trash on
the floors. Keeping any place as large as Duke Hospital clean is a full-time job as anyone knows.
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On March 9, the city of New Orleans extended a gracious and hospitable hand of welcome to one of her visitors and presented the key to the city. The honoree
was our own Dr. Julian Ruffin, and this was the first time a doctor of medicine has been presented the key.
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Duke became the only university in the country to have six men receive the coveted John and Mary R. Markle grant last month
with the appointment of Dr. Wayland E. Hull, assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology, who was presented the $30,000
award for 1954. Duke has had six Markle scholars in seven years and also has a seventh in Dr. Seymour Korkes, associate professor
of biochemistry, who received the award in 1951 while at New York University.
Former recipients are...Dr. William G. Anlyan, assistant professor of surgery, 1953 winner; Dr. William deMaria, associate in
pediatrics, 1952; Dr. Samuel P. Martin, associate professor of medicine, 1950; Dr. George Schwert, associate professor of
biochemistry, 1949 award winner; and Dr. Ivan Brown, assistant professor of surgery whose 1948 grant from the Markle
Foundation was completed in May of last year.
Vit-art happy h reassure c^te-lovtrs that tJie fiv* cent cup of coffee is-stUl available ui. the. CoffeeJCountet,