Nurses or physicians tend to patients of the 65th General Hospital. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by Dr. E....
Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo Ormandy...
Dr. Richard B. Raney fits a neck brace onto an African-American patient in the Orthopaedic Clinic. A nurse assists. Raney served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1952. Dr. R.B. Raney authored "Primer on Prevention of Deformities in...
Dr. Clarence Gardner sews up a patient in the Duke Hospital emergency room. He is assisted by Miss Antoinette Makeley, R.N. The group of young men observing the procedure is likely comprised of medical students or interns. Dr. Clarence Ellsworth...
William A. Withers takes the blood pressure of a female patient at the Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic. William A. Withers served as house staff and fellow from 1937 to 1939.