Duke Hospital with old cars parked out front. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21, 1930.
(Signs from left to right) Skeletal fraction femur; Skeletal traction humerus; Fracture of surgical neck of the humerus with rubber muscle; Hall fracture bed; Russell method of balanced traction for fracture of femur.
Mrs. Hazel, one of the earliest hospital receptionists, is seated at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. A number of patients are waiting in the lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical...
Amoss was a member of the original faculty as professor and first chair of the Dept. of Medicine (1929-1933). George Richards Minot, a Massachusetts physician, was a medical "great" for whom the Minot Ward in Duke Hospital was named.
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."
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 average of...
A nurse speaks on the phone at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat at the desk during his evening work in the foyer of Duke Hospital...