All Things Duke
To Duke student Jessica, he's just "my guitar playing dad". To the rest of us, he's "The Boss".
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
He coached both basketball and football at Duke and served as Athletic Director before the Basketball arena was named for him.
Who is Eddie Cameron?
In 1816 French Physician Rene Laennec fashioned the first one of these instruments from a hollow wooden tube.
What is a stethoscope?
Anthony Edwards earned a Golden Globe for his role as Dr. Mark Greene on "ER". However, Edwards is probably best know for this nickname in "Top Gun"- as Tom Cruise's Wingman.
Who was Goose?
A process emphasized during DPCs recent Joint Commission survey to prevent the spread of germs to patients.
What is hand washing?
In 1925, he willed $4 million to establish a major hospital to improve health care in rural North Carolina. Ironically, his family made its fortune in tobacco!)
Who is James B. Duke?
Coach K played college basketball on the Hudson River for this chair-throwing Hall of Fame Coach.
Who is Bobby Knight?
His name is commonly associated with milk, but among many other things this "Father of Microbiology" created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
After the demise of "As the World Turns" this became the world's longest running daytime soap opera.
What is "General Hospital"?
An every-six-month APP requirement to remain compliant and maintain licensure.
What are Quality Meetings?
In the 1920s, African American Julian Abele was the architect of Duke's original campus. He was also the chief designer of this structure, with a bell tower modeled after the Canterbury Cathedral; constructed with volcanic rock from Hillsborough, NC.
What is the Duke Chapel?
The winner of the 2018 World Series.
Who else but the Boston Red Sox!!
She not only discovered radium; she was also a war hero in WWI and was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. (Actually she won two of them!)
Who was Madame Marie Curie?
"Hawkeye", "Trapper John" and "Hot Lips Houlihan fought to save lives at their M.A.S.H unit during this war.
What is the Korean War?
DPC CMO
John Anderson, MD
This was the birthplace of the Physician Assistant Profession in 1965 (and it is currently ranked #1 by US News and World Report).
What is Duke?
Humeral epicondylitis is "med speak" for this sports influenced condition.
What is tennis elbow?
In the 1730s Stephen Hales first measured this by using a crude manometer: he stuck a tube in a horse's artery.
What is Blood Pressure?
Some know Patrick Dempsey as Reese Witherspoon's finance in "Sweet Home Alabama". Others know him by this nickname in Grey's Anatomy.
Who is Dr. McDreamy"?
Original name for DPC.
What is Duke University Affiliated Physicians (DUAP)?
In 1956, Duke surgeons performed the first cardiac surgery using this method to bring a patient's body temperature down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is hypothermia?
The non-sports minded might think this means "insanity in the spring". We "bracketologists" know it as this.
What is "March Madness"?
This English Nurse with an avian sounding name, was a statistician and social reformer who trained the first public health nurses - during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
He cut his acting teeth on television as Dr. Phillip Chandler in "St. Elsewhere". But he later starred on the big screen in "Philadelphia", "Remember the Titans", "Training Day" and won an Academy Award for "Glory".
Who is Denzel Washington?
Duke Connected Care is this type of organization.
What is an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)?