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This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Edward Halperin on October 10, 2006 by Jessica Roseberry.
Duration: 00:46:44
Dr. Halperin discusses his family history, early life, medical education, the development of the field of radiation oncology, his career at Duke (including his work as vice dean of Duke University Medical School), Duke curricula reform, the creation of the medical master's in library science program, medical student suicides, his experiences with Dr. Snyderman, and research into the history of medicine. Includes a master and use CD and a digital transcript.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Alfred Gras on September 23, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry.
Duration: 00:20:00
Gras discusses his renaissance of interest in his own receipt of penicillin as medical student; notes from his father's journal about the event; Mary Poston; David Tillerson Smith; sulfonamides; his near death and miraculous recovery from bilateral staphylococcal pneumonia from use of penicillin; availability of penicillin at the time; Dr. Edward Levy and Dr. John Peck setting up penicillin drip; Dr. Levy and Dr. Peck telling him he was receiving a "vitabrew " in his leg; vein problems due to the treatment; further use of the penicillin extracted from his urine; obtaining the penicillin; his lack of having heard about penicillin; write-up of case in New England Journal of Medicine; cost (none) of his experimental penicillin versus estimated cost of same amount ($10,000); coming to Duke Medical School; lack of event status of the incident among his peers; cessation of penicillin due to complications from intravenous delivery; and further career. Includes a master and use audio cassette tapes and a transcript, which is available both in print and digitally.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. John Palmer Grant on July 12, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 00:38:00

During the interview, Grant discusses his background; how he became a surgeon; how he came to Duke; his involvement with nutritional support of surgical and medical patients; his involvement with the Surgical Nutrition Research Laboratory, starting intravenous feeding at Duke, and how the laboratory is funded; research pertaining the laboratory on overeating, weight loss surgery, and the effects of arginine supplementation and glutamine supplementation to intravenous feeding; Dr. David Sabiston's reputation and the Department of Surgery at Duke. Includes 1 master audiocassette tape, 1 use audiocassette tape, and 1 transcript.

This oral history interview was conducted with Tracy K. Gosselin on October 13, 2021 by Josephine McRobbie.

Duration: 01:41:23

During the interview, Gosselin discusses the responsibilities of her role as Chief Nursing & Patient Care Services Officer at Duke University Hospital; her role in patient experience and experiences with feedback during rounding; her background and education, joining Duke Hospital in 1993; her early career interests and view of nursing as profession; her recollections of learning on the job in terms of time management, cancer as a set of diseases, cancer treatment, and end of life care; continuity of care and streamlining of oncology services during her early career; the implementation of nursing model while Nursing Program Manager for Duke Radiation Oncology; her experiences as a student in University of Utah's College of Nursing virtual PhD program; her doctoral research in symptoms, quality of life, and emotional status in survivors of rectal cancer treatment; her experience teaching Oncology Nursing and Leadership in Duke University School of Nursing; her decision to aim for Chief Nurse position; her involvement with Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Cancer Center; the importance of senior leadership to make themselves available; research and education on bullying in the healthcare environment; workplace and safety mechanisms in Epic / Maestro Care; colleagues and mentorship; the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic; her work with the Duke Cancer Center and development of Oncology Patient Advisory Council; and her upcoming move to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive, and Chair of Nursing. The themes of this interview include nursing, nursing education, and healthcare leadership. Digital files include interview metadata and transcript (PDF), interview with stereo (WAV), interview with mono (MP3), consent form (PDF), and TXT files.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. J. Leonard Goldner on March 15, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 01:37:00 [Tape 1: 01:30:00; Tape 2: 00:07:00]

During the interview, Goldner discusses his professional background; how he came to enter the profession of medicine and surgery; specific influences and/or experiences that led him to orthopedics; how he came to Duke; details about the Department of Surgery such as how it was organized, who the key personalities were, and how they interacted to accomplish departmental business; memories and experiences with Dr. Deryl Hart, Dr. Clarence Gardner, and Dr. David Sabiston; the Private Diagnostic Clinic; the evolution of his research career; and funding through the National Institutes of Health. Includes 2 master audiocassette tapes and 1 transcript.

This oral history was conducted with Dr. William J. Fulkerson Jr. on June 11, 2019 by Dr. Justin Barr as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Transcript is available.
Duration: 00:32:43
During the interview, Fulkerson discusses his early life, education, coming to Duke, working in the Department of Medicine, professional memories of Dr. David Sabiston, Duke Department of Surgery, treating Terry Sanford, and the origin of Duke's lung transplant program.
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.WAV), consent form (.PDF), and Bagger files (.TXT).

This oral history interview was conducted with Mary Ann Fuchs on October 31, 2022 by Josephine McRobbie.

Duration: 01:22:49

During the interview, Fuchs discusses her background and education; research and care at Duke Hospital; career paths for nurses, healthcare mentors, and colleagues; and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The themes of this interview include nursing, nursing education, and healthcare leadership. Digital files include interview metadata and transcript (PDF), interview with stereo (WAV), interview with mono (MP3), consent form (PDF), and TXT files.

Dr. Fridovich speaks about his arrival in Duke University's Department of Biochemistry in 1952; Dr. Bernheim's reputation at the time for having discovered the amine oxidase; Dr. Bernheim's reputation for good teaching; Dr. Bernheim's reputation for writing abstracts for the publication Chemical Abstracts; the importance of Dr. Bernheim's discovery at the time; Dr. Bernheim's book, A Sky of My Own, about flying; Dr. Bernheim's interest in outdoor activities; the Bernheims housing an English child during World War II; the few women on the faculty; Dr. Bernheim's husband, Dr. Frederick Bernheim, and both of them being highly regarded scientifically; the founding chair of the department, Dr. William Perlzweig; women in the department over time; the field of biochemistry moving beyond Dr. Bernheim's discovery; Dr. Bernheim's donation of land to the Eno River Association; the physical space of the Department of Biochemistry upon his arrival; the growth of the department; Dr. Bernheim focusing more on teaching than research in her later years; Dr. Bernheim as always being called Molly, not Mary; flying as being important to Dr. Bernheim; the equipment that was used in the department in the 1950s; the equipment Dr. Bernheim might have used in her earliest years of research; Dr. Rebecca Buckley; national attention on Dr. Bernheim for her discovery; Dr. Bernheim's modesty; and the fading of that attention over the years.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. E. Harvey Estes Jr. on April 28, 2004 by Jessica Roseberry.

Duration: 01:20:00

Estes discusses the history of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke. He also discusses the department's relationship with Watts Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital (now Duke Regional Hospital), and the Duke University Physician Assistant Program. Includes 2 master audiocassette tapes, 2 use audiocassette tapes, and a transcript.

This oral history was conducted with Dr. Norman M. Rich on May 21, 2019 by Dr. Justin Barr as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Transcript is available.
Duration: 00:57:53
During the interview, Rich discusses his early life in a copper mining town in Arizona; early interest in the repair of blood vessels; education; decision to become a surgeon; military service as a surgeon in Vietnam and later running the vascular service at Walter Reed and running the vascular fellowship program; Rich and Sabiston's friendship and warm working relationship; Rich's career in medicine after retiring from active duty; attending conferences, domestic and international, with Sabiston; and Rich's commitment to teamwork.
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.WAV), consent form and contextual files (.PDF), contextual images (.JPG), and Bagger files (.TXT).

This oral history was conducted with Dr. Bernard M. Jaffe on June 24, 2019 by Emily Stewart as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Transcript is available.
Duration: 00:04:09
During the interview, Jaffe discusses, as part of the recorded interview, how he helped locate the grave of Dr. William Stewart Halsted, a role model for Dr. Sabiston, when Sabiston was a visiting professor at the medical school at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. There are additional notes about 2 Sabiston stories made during a phone conversation with Jaffe that were not recorded about how Jaffe met Sabiston and Sabiston's niece only calling him "Dr. Sabiston" and not "Uncle Dave".
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.MP3), consent form (.PDF), and Bagger files (.TXT).

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Walter J. Pories on July 30, 2020 by Taylor Patterson as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 00:42:39

During the interview, Pories discusses his early life; education; decision to enter the medical profession; his career; how Sabiston helped him recruit for the Department of Surgery at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU) when it first started; Sabiston's contributions to the field of surgery through his skill as a surgeon, training surgeons, and his leadership in the American College of Surgeons; and other memories of Sabiston and his wife, Aggie. Digital files include transcript (DOCX), interview (MP3), consent form (PDF), and TXT files.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. William C. DeVries on August 20, 2019 by Emily Stewart as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.
Duration: 00:50:35
During the interview, DeVries discusses his education; work at the University of Utah School of Medicine with Dr. Willem Kolff on the artificial heart; how Kolff "loaned" him to Sabiston for his surgical residency at Duke; his surgical residency at Duke; memories of Sabiston including the time Sabiston sent him home because he dressed in the dark and accidentally put on different colored socks; learning about the importance of the pursuit of excellence of Sabsiton; building the cardiac surgery program at the University of Utah and VA Hospital; putting artificial hearts in animals; first patient to receive an artificial heart and the media frenzy; his move to Louisville, Kentucky, to work on artificial hearts at Humana; and other career related memories.
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.MP3), and consent form (.PDF).

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Don E. Detmer on February 2, 2022 by Dr. Konstantinos Economopoulos as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 01:16:29

During the interview, Detmer discusses his early life, education, his medical training, individuals who shaped him along the way during his career, how he came to Duke for the third year of his surgical residency, memories of Sabiston, Sabiston's rigid belief system, his interest in health policy, how he went into administration and medical informatics, different positions he held over the years, and his work with the Duke Physician Assistant Program. Digital files include transcript (DOCX), interview (MP4 and M4A), and consent form (PDF).

This oral history was conducted with Dr. Fred A. Crawford on May 22, 2019 by Taylor Patterson as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Transcript is available.
Duration: 00:49:09
During the interview, Crawford discusses his early life and education, his experience at Duke University and Duke University School of Medicine, working for Dr. Will C. Sealy, memories of Dr. David and Agnes Sabiston, his residency, leaving his residency at Duke to serve in the Army during the Vietnam War, and his career after Duke at the University of Mississippi and the Medical University of South Carolina as a thoracic surgeon.
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.MP3), consent form (.PDF), keywords and summary (DOCX), and Bagger files (.TXT).

This oral history was conducted with Dr. W. Gerald Austen on September 9, 2019 by Emily Stewart as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Transcript is available.
Duration: 00:39:57
During the interview, Austen discusses his early life and education; his work at Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. David and Agnes Sabiston, including first meeting David Sabiston and his first stroke; his wife, Patty Austen; the history of open heart surgery; and the Duke Department of Surgery.
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.MP3), consent form (.PDF), keywords and summary (.DOCX), and Bagger files (.TXT).

This oral history interview was conducted with Mary Artley on December 13, 2019 by Emily Stewart as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 00:21:27

During the interview, Artley discusses her early life; moving to Durham, North Carolina; her education; how she came to work for the Department of Surgery at Duke Hospital; her memories of working for the Department of Surgery; and her memories of Dr. David Sabiston from her time in the department. Artley did not interact with Sabiston much, as he never spoke to her and used his business manager, Mike Slaughter, as his liaison. The one time he asked her to do something for him, it was through Slaughter. Sabiston liked Artley's handwriting and asked for her to hand address his Christmas cards one year. Aside from that interaction, Artley found Sabiston intimidating from the stories she heard, how he treated his surgical residents, and how he often talked down to people and belittled them. Digital files include transcript (DOCX), interview (MP3), and consent form (PDF).

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Eddie L. Hoover on June 25, 2019 by Emily Stewart as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 00:45:34

During the interview, Hoover discusses his early life; education; how he joined the medical profession; what it was like to be Black at the time Duke was starting to integrate its schools and facilities; the need for and starting the Society of Black Academic Surgeons; and his memories of Sabiston including his flawless memory, his meticulous nature, his love of the history of surgery, his dress code, his focus on research, and his desire to train academic surgeons who were going to teach the next generation of surgeons. Digital files include transcript (DOCX), interview (MP3), consent form (PDF), and TXT files.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Allan H. Friedman on May 14, 2019 by Susannah Roberson as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.
Duration: 00:17:24
During the interview, Friedman discusses his early life; educational background; how he decided to become a surgeon; how he came to Duke; his residency at Duke, including his first meeting with Sabiston for his interview; working with the first female intern in the Department of Surgery, Isabelle (Fader) Richmond; how Sabiston was able to attract the best house staff because of his national reputation; his relationship with Sabiston as it evolved through Friedman's residency to his faculty appointment and Sabiston moved from being a mentor to being a friend; and how Sabiston influenced Friedman's research and his career at Duke. Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.WAV), and consent form (.PDF).