Charles Peete Oral History Interview, November 2, 2004

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Creator:
Peete, Charles
Abstract:

Charles Peete was a physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University.

Contains audiotapes and a transcript of an oral history interview with Charles Peete, physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University. Major subjects in this interview include F. Bayard Carter, Roy Parker, Robert A. Ross, and Duke Hospital. The interview was conducted on November 2, 2004 by Jessica Roseberry.

Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.PEETEC

Background

Scope and content:

Contains audiotapes and transcipt of and oral history interview with Charles Peete, physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University.

  • Duke University. Hospital.
  • Duke University. Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
  • Parker, Roy T.
  • Ross, Robert A.
  • Carter, Francis Bayard, 1898-1977
  • Duke University. Medical Center.
  • Education, Medical.
  • History of Medicine -- North Carolina -- Personal Narratives.
  • Physicians -- Interview.
Biographical / historical:

Charles Peete was born April 30, 1924, in Warrenton, NC. He was a sixth-generation physician, and his father was a general practitioner. When he was in high school, Peete would sometimes drive his father to house calls. He also witnessed the intricacies of medicine at his father's home office. Dr. William Peete, brother to Charles Peete, became a surgeon and also practiced at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Charles Peete attended University of North Carolina for two-and-a-half years; he then attended and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1944. After an internship in medicine at Duke, he began two years of work and training in the US Naval Hospital in Key West, Florida in 1954. In 1956, he returned to Duke and worked as a physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. There Dr. Peete became an active member in the Nick Carter Travel Club, named for the chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, F. Bayard Carter. Dr. Peete was in charge of the outrider services for medical students for several years. He served as a physician at Duke until his retirement in 1994.

Acquisition information:
Acquired; 2004.
Processing information:

Processed by: Jessica Roseberry, September 2005 Encoded by: Emily Glenn, September 2005

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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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[Identification of item], Charles Peete Interview, Duke University Medical Center Archives.