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Dr. Keohane discusses the importance of the medical center to Duke University; the future importance of the medical center to Richard Brodhead as president; Keohane's view of the medical center as president of Duke University; crises in medical care due to managed care; Dr. Ralph Snyderman; Dr. Dan Tosteson; Jerome Grossman; reappointment of Dr. Ralph Snyderman; Dr. Bill Anylan; Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie; Bill Donelan; Fuqua School of Business; decentralized nature of medical center and university; need for more centralization; creation of the health system; health system in relationship to Duke as a whole; Private Diagnostic Clinics; personal constituencies; John Burness; Ad Hoc Governance Committee; Board of Trustees; committee's recommendations for clarification of the nature of the health system; Dr. Victor Dzau; Doris Duke; Dr. Wilburt Davison's relationship with Doris Duke; Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans; African Americans at the Medical Center; Jean Spaulding; Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative; MaryAnn Black; School of Nursing; Thelma Ingles; nature of Dr. Walter Campbell's book; organizational issues and political nature of Duke University Medical Center's organization; acquisitions and divestments of the Medical Center during managed care; vision of medical center during managed care; economic purpose behind divestments; WellPath; translational medicine; personal views of Dr. Ralph Snyderman's leadership.

Dr. Saltzman speaks about his background; his education; interactions with Dr. Eugene Stead; coming to Duke Medical Center; his impressions of Dr. Eugene Stead; drenching the tissues of the body with oxygen; the history of hyperbarics; Dr. Ivan Brown; Dr. Ward Smith; Dr. Herb Seiker; his own directorship of Duke hyperbaric program; new facilities in the Duke hyperbaric chamber, beginning in the 1960s; Navy diving tests in the wet hyperbaric chamber; treating patients in the hyperbaric chamber; extending the experimental diving portion of hyperbaric chambers; studying gas exchange; Dr. Peter Bennett; Dr. Claude Piantadosi; various functions of the Duke hyperbaric facilities; the lessened relationship with the Navy since initial experiments; funding for the hyperbaric chamber; the addition of a conference room; his own experimentation in diagnosing pulmonary embolism involving blood clots; the relationship of the hyperbaric facility with Duke's Department of Anesthesiology; Dr. Merel Harmel; relationships with other Duke departments; how the fields of hyperbarics and anesthesiology are similar; experiments testing liquid breathing; the location of the old facility; the growth of the program; F.G. Hall; other facilities beyond Duke; the Duke facility's uniqueness; people who have been important in the history of the Duke facility; the development of the Duke hood; and his own interest in his work.

This oral history was conducted with J. Michael Slaughter on November 6, 2019 by Emily Stewart as part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Transcript is available.
Duration: 00:48:28
During the interview, Slaughter discusses his early life and education; memories of Dr. David and Agnes Sabiston; and working as the business manager for Duke Department of Surgery and all the duties that came along with that job, including managing payroll and planning all departmental social functions.
Digital files include transcript (.DOCX), interview (.MP3), consent form (.PDF), keywords and summary (DOCX), and Bagger files (.TXT).