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Contains correspondence, lecture and presentation materials, reports, meeting minutes, and subject files pertaining to the operation and management of Duke University Department of Surgery, the Veterans Affairs Hospital, and academic programs of the Department of Medicine, including nursing training and education. Major correspondents include Del Stickel, Donald Silver, J. Leonard Goldner, James F. Glen, Will Sealy, Samuel A. Wells Jr., and Kenneth Pickrell. Materials date from 1949 to 2002.

Contains reports of research activities at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, where Sabiston consulted on administrative matters. Types of materials include budgets, planning documents, correspondence, and a surgical research review. Materials date from 1955 to 1977.

Contains interviews and manuscript materials supporting the research and writing of the book, "At the Heart of Medicine: Essays on the Practice of Surgery and Surgical Education" by David C. Sabiston Jr. and Barton F. Haynes (2006). Also contains illustration drafts related to Chapter 31-V of the "Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice". Materials date from 1995 to 2001.

Contains subject files, correspondence, and meeting minutes. Materials are undated.

This series includes correspondence, planning documents, committee reports, evaluations, budgets, and other administrative materials of professional organizations and societies, external to Duke University. The file on Conference Committee on Graduate Training includes site visits with Watts Hospital and Lincoln Hospital (1982-1986). Materials date from 1964 to 1987.