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Dr. St. Geme talks about his family, teaching, research, and his career as a practicing pediatrician. He also talks about playing football for Stanford and its impact on his education.

Dr. Frush talks about what she has done so far in her career. Dr. Frush started as a nurse, which she was for a year, but quickly went into medical school at Duke to become a pediatrician. Her desire to have a family influenced her decision to become a nurse, but then when a family wasn't in the near future she decided to become a doctor. She now has a family and medical degree, without the conflicts she expected. She also talks about how nurses and doctors must work as a team to ensure patient safety.

Ms. Robinson she discusses how she got into the physician assistant field and why she has stayed in it. She also explains the roles and responsibilities of the physician assistant in today's hospitals and how she operates here at Duke. In this context, she also elaborates on what it takes to make a good physician assistant, and how Duke is training physician assistants to have these skills. With regards to the job of physician assistant, she discusses some of the history of the field, the current state and the potential future of the physician assistant as a major source of primary care. Finally, in regards to her interest in obesity and family care, she expresses her concern over the changes in the demographics and spread of obesity she has observed during her career.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. John A. Bartlett on October 29, 2009 by Tullia Rushton and Diana Xie as part of the Writing Class 20 Interview.

Duration: 00:49:58

Dr. John A. Bartlett discusses his decision to pursue medicine, his views on the ethics and frustrations of the field, and his work with HIV/AIDS. Includes 2 master CDs and 1 use CD.

Dr. White chronicles her career as a physician and as an academic dean. She also talks about her effor to balance her work and her family life.

This oral history interview was conducted with Paul R. Newman on October 30, 2019 by Taylor Patterson as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 01:01:16

During the interview, Newman discusses his education; how he became interested in the Hospital Administration program at Duke; becoming an assistant football coach at Duke to help pay for graduate school; how he chose to pursue working in hospital administration over a career as a foot coach; the details of his job as a hospital administration supporting clinical chairs in academic departments, with Sabiston being one of them; experiences working at the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC), including the merger of the surgical and medical PDC; the details of his role as a hospital administrator; the creation of the Duke University Health System; Sabiston's control over the Building Fund; and his memories of working with Sabiston as a master educator, master politician, and the tremendous influence he had at both Duke and on a national level. Digital files include transcript (DOCX), interview (MP3), consent form (PDF), and TXT files.

Dr. Berlin speaks about his background; his enrollment at Duke University as an accelerated wartime student; continuing his education after serving in the military in Japan; his enrollment at Duke University School of Medicine; his internship and residency; his return to Savannah; serving as team doctor for college teams and for the Savannah Braves, the local high school baseball team; his return to Duke in 1979; reasons for coming to Duke; his parents' emigration to America; his impressions of Duke; his impressions at the time of the controversy about the replacement of Duke president Robert Flowers with Holliss Edens; his Jewish heritage not being a problem at Duke; his father's interaction with a dean who made prejudiced remarks to him; he and his roommate choosing not to enter a Jewish fraternity on campus; his social life on campus; meeting his wife in the Duke choir; his wife working at Liggett and Myers while he completed his residency; his role in the war; his decision at this time to be a doctor; his choice not to go to the University of Georgia School of Medicine because of the competitive atmosphere among medical students; the "whispered" quota of Jewish students in the medical school; the curriculum during his medical school days; the camaraderie among medical students; his internship at Duke; working with Dr. Eugene Stead; the segregation of the wards; the people at Duke who had the greatest impact on him; Dr. Walter Kempner as being the reason that Duke came so far so fast; his internship with Dr. Kempner; Dr. Joseph Beard; Dr. Wilburt Davison; working with public patients; coming back to Duke after having been in Savannah; working with Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski; Duke North; working at the Durham VA hospital; and his retirement.

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.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Jean Spaulding on October 3, 2006 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit.
Duration: 01:18:01
Spaulding discusses her family background; growing up in Michigan; the diverse community in Michigan; coming to the South; negative and prejudiced treatment in the South as an African-American; the lack of recognition of the Vietnam War in Duke Medical School; negative treatment from some in the medical school; the medical school not being affected by the undergraduate protests and takeovers taking place at the Allen Building due to racial issues; the segregation of donors' blood along racial lines; being the only African-American in Duke Medical School; negative statements made about her scholarship in her admissions interview because she was a woman; the prejudice of some of the professors at Duke Medical School; cross burning on her front lawn; her determination to stay and exercise her civil rights; her closeness with the other five women in the class; the attractiveness of psychiatry to her; the trust relationship between patients and doctors in psychiatry; Mary Ann Black; Dr. Spaulding and Ms. Black as the only African-Americans at the Child Guidance Clinic; the close relationship with Ms. Black; the Community Child Guidance Clinic; the atmosphere of the Duke Department of Psychiatry; Dr. Ewald Busse; Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie; the open nature of those at the Child Guidance Clinic; the joys of raising a family at same time as education and career; her pregnancy during medical school; taking time off to raise her first daughter; threats of the removal of her scholarship due to time off; the rescinding of threats when legal recourses were mentioned; the Biddle Foundation Scholarship; the opportunity to chair the Community Psychiatry Division; the decision to open a private practice instead; the predominance of female clientele in her practice; the particular stresses of that population to do everything; her own perspective as a person who accomplished many things simultaneously; balance in her life; her participation in the Women's Council for Duke; assisting Dr. Snyderman in developing the health system; the board of trustees of the Duke Endowment; what the presidential search committee saw in Dr. Nannerl Keohane; Duke's acquisition of Durham Regional Hospital; communication with Mary Ann Black at the time; Duke's relationship with the larger community; the view of Duke by some segments of African-Americans in the Durham community; Mary Semans; women and African-Americans whose names should be mentioned; Promising Practices; the development of initiatives for women at Duke Health System; females in positions of high leadership at Duke; Dr. Ralph Snyderman; role as trustee of Duke Endowment; her mother-in law, Elna Spaulding; her father-in-law, Asa Spaulding; and her daughters. The transcription of this interview was made possible by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation. Includes 2 master CDs, 2 use CDs, and 1 transcript.

This oral history was conducted with Dr. Jack Hughes on October 3 and 4, 2019 by Joseph O'Connell. Transcript is available.

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The October 3 and 4, 2019 interview with Hughes moves more or less chronologically through Hughes' upbringing and education, his military service during World War II, his residency and training in Minnesota, and his experiences at the intersection of academic and private practice medical communities in Durham, North Carolina. Digital files include transcript (.PDF), interviews (.WAV), consent form (.PDF), Hughes portrait).JPG), and Bagger files (.TXT).

This oral history was conducted with Dr. Howard C. Filston on October 5, 2019 by Dr. Justin Barr as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.

Duration: 01:15:42

During the interview Filston discusses his early life; education; his decision to become a doctor; the field of pediatric surgery; working with his mentor, Dr. Robert (Bob) Izant; his fellowship with Dr. C. Everett Koop and helping establish the first surgical neonatal intensive care unit in the country; being recruited by Sabiston to come to Duke to as the first trained pediatric surgeon in an academic center in North Carolina; supportive coworkers at Duke; working with Dr. Samuel Katz; being involved in resident education at Duke; and how Sabiston ran the Department of Surgery and the culture of the department.

Digital files include master and use transcripts (DOCX), interview (MP3), consent form (PDF), CV (DOC), and TXT files.

This oral history interview was conducted with Ann Milligan-Barnes on October 5, 2022 by Josephine McRobbie as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project, which was funded by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.

Duration: 02:01:42

During the interview, Milligan-Barnes discusses her early professional years at Watts Hospital, her role as a Labor and Delivery nurse at Durham/Duke Regional Hospital, her time serving in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps, as well as her experiences in the Durham County Department of Public Health, where she worked as a Public Health Nurse and the Coordinator for the Centering Pregnancy Program associated with the Duke Midwifery Services. The themes of this interview include community healthcare, health disparities, and pregnancy and postpartum care. Digital files include interview metadata and transcript (PDF), interview with stereo (WAV), interview with mono (MP3), consent form (PDF), an image (JPG), and TXT files.

History of Ivan Brown, Department of Surgery, and Duke University Medical Center.

History of the Davison Club.

Newton speaks about his background; working in the physics instrument shop at Duke; starting Newton Instrument Company; being asked to set up a surgical instrument shop; reasons for starting a surgical instrument shop for the medical center; Dr. Deryl Hart; building framing systems for Dr. Hart's ultraviolet lights; Dr. Hart's interaction with the instrument shop; his interest and development of skills in the area of design; purchasing a trip to New York for the opening of the surgical instrument shop; materials; describing the bubble trap (surgical tool) he brought to the interview; the importance of proper materials for surgical instruments; where the materials came from for the surgical instrument shop; funding for the shop; the development of the Duke Inhaler with the chair of Anesthesiology, Dr. Ronald Stephen; the description of the Duke Inhaler that he brought to his interview; most of the shop's instruments being used for research purposes; other items created by the surgical instrument shop or Newton Instrument Company; frequent medical center clients; people who worked with the surgical instrument shop; working half time at Newton Instrument Company and half time at the surgical instrument shop at Duke; developing an endobronchial balloon with Dr. Jim Moody; the Newton Instrument Company as manufacturing the Duke inhaler, and this being the first major product of Newton Instrument Company; ultimately flooding the market with the inhaler; layoffs at Newton Instrument Company; Newton Instrument Company manufacturing framing for the telephone company at the peak of its expansion; the surgical instrument shop buying a huge press break from a Naval gun factory; expanding the building to accommodate the press break; William Barber; the Durham Industrial Education Center; and the interfaith chapel named after William Preston Few.

Physician Assistant 25th Anniversary Project.

Duke Cardiovascular Databank.

Dr. Cook's involvement in the Davison Club and other charitable giving to Duke.

Durham Regional Hospital.