AlumniAlumniNewsDukeDukeMedMed News In TheirTheir NextNext LifeLife WINTER 2001 What’s it like to enter medical school after years in the working world? p.10 6 Meet the New MAA President 8 Diary of a Tragedy: Alumni Respond to the Events of September 11 DukeMed In Brief ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Reynolds Chronicles Lincoln Hospital History Many Duke pediatrics and general medicine residents can remember seeing patients at Lincoln Community Health Center in downtown Durham. Now a new book by P. Preston Reynolds, T’79, G’81, MD’85, PhD’87, of Baltimore, Md., chronicles the history of the original Lincoln Hospital, which served Durham’s black community from 1901 to 1976. In 1976, Lincoln and Watts Hospital, Durham’s “white” hospital, merged to form Durham County General Hospital—now Durham Regional Hospital. The Lincoln name was given to the community health center, which stands on the site of the old hospital campus. During the Jim Crow era, Lincoln was a rare model of interracial collaboration, according to Reynolds. “I think, because of those professional relations—at the The Next Best Thing to Being Here: trustee level, at the physician level, at the staff level— DukeMed Interactive [Lincoln] served a critical role when the community Potential medical students can now check out Duke merged Watts and Lincoln in Durham General,” School of Medicine without leaving their desks. says Reynolds. DukeMed Interactive, a Web site for medical school Lincoln served a thriving black community in admissions, is designed to help applicants understand Durham, which was home to two of the nation’s what makes Duke one of the nation’s top medical largest African-American-owned institutions: N.C. schools, what makes it unique, and what it’s like to Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Mechanics attend school here. Applicants can also visit the site to and Farmers Bank. In the 1920s, Lincoln offered complete and submit secondary applications and get internships for black physicians—at that time only 42 updates on the status of their application. were available nationwide. Other features include: The book contains more than 200 vintage photo- Osler •Profiles of alumni, faculty, and students graphs. Other books by Reynolds include Watts • “Day in the Life” slide shows demonstrating what Hospital of Durham, it’s like to be a first, second, third, or fourth-year N.C., 1895-1976, and Legendary Ivy Replanted student a larger work now in Back in the 1930s, Dean Wilburt Cornell Davison (far left), Dr. Alfred Henderson, Mary D.B.T. Semans • Short videos highlighting everything from the cur- progress on the history snipped some sprigs of ivy from the Oxford, England (far right), McGovern (bending over), and an riculum to Durham to the student-faculty show of medicine. garden of his mentor, Sir William Osler, MD. No gar- unidentified photographer. •Virtual tours of campus and Durham dener himself, the Dean legendarily stuffed the sprig During the recent construction of the Duke Clinic • Lots of information on every aspect of life at of ivy in his pants pocket to take it back to Durham. Building, the ivy was moved to the safe haven of a Duke Med. Miraculously, the precious ivy survived the transatlantic greenhouse at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. On You can visit the site at dukemed.duke.edu. trip and was planted outside the Medical School October 18, members of the Davison Club held a entrance on June 7, 1932, as part of the celebrations for commemorative replanting ceremony on the Davison the first medical school entering class. Unfortunately, the Building Lawn. The ivy was carefully installed in a spe- longsuffering ivy soon perished under the afternoon sun. cial bed in the courtyard area in front of Baker House, In 1968, John McGovern, MD’45, led a successful where it may be appreciated by all. A special plaque replanting of imported Osler ivy in honor of Dean Davison. explains the significance of the Osler ivy in Duke’s his- Pictured above during the ceremony are Davison tory. (More information on Osler may be found on pages 4-5.) 2 DukeMedAlumniNews DukeMedAlumniNews 3 each other. In an essay entitled “Chauvinism in science for over 60 years, and this book culminates Osler’s “A Way of Life” & Other Addresses with Commentary & Annotations Book review Medicine,” Osler condemns four problems that his own distinguished career influenced by By Shigeaki Hinohara, MD, and Hisnae Niki, MA plagued the medical profession during his time: Oslerian philosophy. With a foreword by John P. McGovern, MD’45 nationalism (prejudice towards foreign physicians), With his thorough notes and more than 1,500 Duke University Press provincialism (in Osler’s time there was no national annotations, Hinohara continues Osler’s legacy of ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS medical licensing board, only state and local boards), physician-as-mentor by making the work of his life’s “Everything has been figured out, except how parochialism (nepotistic ‘academic inbreeding’) and teacher more accessible to others. From biographical to live,” Jean-Paul Sartre once said. Perhaps Sartre chauvinism (physicians’ complacency and arrogance). information on the seventeenth-century English should have spent some time with Sir William Osler Although he and his cogent messages gleamed in physician Francis Glisson to the meaning of the instead of those leftist cynics. the academic arena, his soul was rooted in patient Heraclitusian phrase panta rhei (‘all things are in a If anyone lived life to its fullest, Sir William Osler care. Osler considered the welfare of his patients state of flux’), Hinohara leaves no stone unturned. (1849-1919) would decisively be the one. Osler, a before making any decision. He believed that medical Aided by English scholar Hisae Niki, MA, Hinohara familiar name in medicine, was a physician and pro- practice was “an art, not a trade; a calling, not a carefully leads the readers to the Osler he admires fessor at McGill University, the University of business; a calling in which your heart will be exer- and understands. His selection of the addresses is Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins University, and the cised equally with your head.” Osler recommended intended to reflect the relevance and significance of Regius Chair in Medicine at Oxford University. His a thorough education in both the sciences and the weighty textbook, The Principles and Practice of humanities, which lent the physician perspective and The most prominent theme in Osler’s works is the avoidance of narrowness. While Medicine (first ed. 1892), has been a standard equanimity to render life-altering decisions with both addressing his colleagues at Oxford, he criticized both the classical scholars and the medical guide for many years. Also, the education- compassion and empathy. al model he developed with his colleagues at Osler hails from an era in which the educated scientists for evading each other instead of learning from each other. Johns Hopkins is the practiced protocol for mod- shared a common classical foundation. To modern or ern medical schools today. non-Western readers who were not raised with such Osler’s ideas to our modern era—distinctly those Nonetheless, what makes Osler’s life so extraor- an academic basis, deciphering Osler’s work can be an texts dealing with ethics in the medical profession. dinary is not his impressive curriculum vitae. His life arduous task—this wise physician threw about literary, In an age which regards hard science and quantitative is notable in that he was true to himself: He prac- biblical, classical, and historical references as generous- reasoning as divine, more and more health care ticed what he preached. As a progressive physi- ly as he bestowed benevolence on his patients. workers are becoming estranged from the very cian, educator, and scientist who maintained acute Having experienced these very difficulties first- reason for their professional existence—the patients. social consciousness, Osler approached and prac- hand, one of Osler’s devout followers, Shigeaki Even though Osler’s messages are more than a ticed medicine with scientific objectivity as well as Hinohara, MD, a renowned Japanese internist and century old, his words carry a timeless prudence and humanitarian sensitivity. Through his career, he educator, comes to the rescue. serve as a pleasant wakeup call for us all. Although developed a comprehensive notion—or a way of An endeavor spanning two decades, Hinohara’s Osler no longer lives, his pro-humanitarian philoso- life—of what it means to be a physician. new book, Osler’s “A Way of Life” & Other phy and patient-centric approach towards medicine The most prominent theme in Osler’s works Addresses, with Commentary & Annotations, is not will live on—echoing throughout the world, across is the avoidance of narrowness. While address- only a work of exacting scholarship; it is an homage our lives, in spirit and in practice. ing his colleagues at Oxford, he criticized both of dedication and devotion. Hinohara, the chairman Review by the classical scholars and the scientists for of the board of St. Luke’s International Hospital in Christine Hoover, T’00 evading each other instead of learning from Tokyo, has given his life to medicine and medical he forward to Osler’s McGovern experienced Osler’s training program in pediatric aller- Never forgetting his roots, Zensuke Hinohara, T’04, a “A Way of Life” by John teachings secondhand from gy at Baylor College of Medicine McGovern donated $6.5 million to national leader of Methodist TP. McGovern, MD’45, a Davison, who studied under in Houston, he dedicated almost Duke to help fund the construction ministry in Japan, graduated from distinguished immunologist-allergist Osler. During their lifetime of friend- 15 years of service without com- of the McGovern-Davison Children’s Trinity College in 1904.