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  • Clinical-pathological conference

    Description/Abstract: Weekly clinical-pathological conferences offered both students and staff a chance to study in detail pathological findings gained from autopsies and to determine the degree of accuracy of diagnosis made on these patients. Originally published in...
    Date: 1962

  • Patients waiting in Duke Hospital public dispensary

    Description/Abstract: Patients seated along a wall in the public dispensary. Hospital staff, physicians and nurses are also visible.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dr. Patricia Sills Thornhill playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic

    Description/Abstract: Thornhill is at bat. Onlookers and parked cars are in the background. Thornhill (A.B., Duke, 1936 and M.D., 1940) served on the house staff from 1940 to 1942.
    Date: 1940

  • Dietetics staff preparing food in the kitchen

    Description/Abstract: Two female members of the Duke University Hospital dietetics staff prepare food in the kitchen. The School of Dietetics, in cooperation with the School of Nursing, offered internships from 1930 to 1972.
    Date: circa 1930

  • Hospital administration interns

    Description/Abstract: Duke Hospital administration internships lasted two years and consisted of supervised responsibility in the major administrative areas of the hospital. Hospital administrative internships were inspired by Dr. Michael M. Davis' Hospital...
    Date: 1948

  • Lincoln Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Lincoln Hospital (Durham, N.C.) was founded in 1901 as the first medical facility for African-Americans. Many Duke Hospital physicians would later provide support for physicians and clinical services for patients of Lincoln Hospital.
    Date: undated

  • Doctor, nurses and African American pediatrics patient at Lincoln Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Dr. William Alexander Cleland uses a stethoscope on a young African American pediatrics patient at Lincoln Hospital in Durham. He is assisted by two nurses.
    Date: undated

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic outpatient registration

    Description/Abstract: Two patients registering at a Duke Hospital outpatient clinic of the Private Diagnostic Clinic. The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the...
    Date: circa 1945

  • Watts Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Watts Hospital was originally founded in 1895 with the philanthropic mission of free health care to all citizens. It was expanded and rebuilt, reopening in 1909. The hospital was so highly regarded that in 1922 James B. Duke, Governor Cameron...
    Date: undated

  • Nurses play games in interns' lounge

    Description/Abstract: Four nurses play a board game at a table in the interns' lounge. The interns' lounge was located in the house staff dormitory on the third floor of the hospital. In 1940, the third floor was rearranged to become the Meyer Ward for psychiatric...
    Date: undated