Patients or visitors use the main entrance of Duke Hospital. Note the small sign to the left of the entrance: "Do not leave children in car to blow horn."
School of Medicine students (class of 1953) studying in Joseph W. Beard's experimental surgery lab. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard and his wife Dorothy were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard...
Department of Medicine Staff. (Left to right, row 1) James P. Hendrix, Julian Meade Ruffin, Elijah Eugene Menefee, Jr., Elbert L. Persons, Eugene A. Stead, J. Lamar Callaway, William McNeal Nicholson, Oscar Hansen-Pruss, Edward S. Orgain....
Patients and hospital staff interact in the Duke Hospital outpatient clinic waiting room. Between 1930 to 1940, approximately half a million visits were made to the outpatient clinic (referred to early on as the OPC). By the early 1950s, an...
Wilma Minnier (L) talk with two nursing students in the hospital. Minniear joined Duke as an assistant professor in 1964. She became executive director of nursing services in 1970 and remained in this position until her retirement in 1984.
Berry graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1938. He was part of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1939 to 1942 (Department of Pathology 1940-1941).
Will Camp Sealy was chief of the general surgery section in the 65th General Hospital. In 1949 he worked with other Duke faculty to start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training Program.