FOUNDATIONS FOR EXCELLENCE: 75 YEARS OF DUKE MEDICINE By Walter E. Campbell Mint

Description: FOUNDATIONS FOR EXCELLENCE: 75 YEARS OF DUKE MEDICINE By Walter E. Campbell Mint Condition is brand new. No faults noted. Packed carefully and shipped with USPS Media Mail. From the flyleaf: Suggested US Retail Price: $39.95 ISBN 0-9672946-4-9. "Duke is almost unique among American academic medical centers in its ability to act as a comprehensive entity. The institution can thus address big issues such as the development of better models of health care or create strategies to incorporate new technologies into more rational forms of care. This change in institutional form and function is hard to see on the surface but it permeates all of what Duke as a Medical Center and University is able to accomplish. Duke has thus created a new model for academic medicine and has found a new pathway for excellence."-Dr. Ralph Snyderman Early in January of 1921, Dr. William Preston Few, the president of Trinity College, a small Methodist school in Durham, North Carolina, visited the offices of the Rockefeller General Education Board in New York. Few wanted some advice from Dr. Abraham Flexner, "in regard to the possible building of a Medical College in connection with Trinity College." Thus begins the story of Duke Medicine that is narrated in this book. It tells of the many remarkable individuals, and the foundations and corporations, rivalry and cooperation, disappointments and successes, that made the Duke University Medical Center what it is today. Now consistently ranked among the top ten medical centers in the United States, Duke University Medical Center plays a leading role in transforming the existing health care system through innovative developments in genomics, integrative medicine, and prospective healthcare. Foundations for Excellence is not, how ever, just a local story, or even the story of one institution, for it also gives us a window on how American medicine has changed in the course of the last seventy five years. By the way: For the philanthropists out there, the vast majority of the items sold by us (GutenburgReads), are for the benefit of The Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem, whose mission is to help house-bound seniors live full and independent lives in their own homes. The center provides transportation to medical appointments and grocery shopping, assistance with minor repairs around the house, and companionship through visits. The citizens of Winston-Salem generously donate books, music, movies, and more to us to help us achieve our mission. By buying useful items from us, you will be helping the less fortunate in our city. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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