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...real master of Charity is the man who raised its new building, who supervised the planting of every one of the 10,000 supporting pylons: Pathologist Rigney D'Aunoy. Descendant of an old Creole family that moved to New Orleans around 1750, warm-hearted Dr. D'Aunoy (pronounced Doe-nwah) is No. 1 U. S. authority on the little-known third venereal disease, Lymphogranuloma inguinale...
Although he was Huey's personal physician, attended Huey's successor Dick Leche, and many another Louisiana boss, Dr. D'Aunoy sticks to his laboratory, stays out of politics. For his tireless six-year labors at Charity the board of directors awarded him the empty title of Medical Consultant...
...hospital cost more than $12,000,000 ($3,600,000 contributed by WPA), but so thriftily did Dr. D'Aunoy manage contracts that 30 FBI men, snooping from last June to January, could scent no trace of graft, a situation amazing in spoor-heavy Louisiana. Planted squarely between Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School (built by Huey in a burst of rage against aristocratic Tulane), the hospital offers both schools equal laboratory and clinical facilities...
...shop. Each ward, a complete unit with special treatment rooms, bathrooms, doctor's office, nurses' cage and pantry, contains only twelve beds. The 50 operating rooms and delivery rooms are paved and walled in soft blue tile, contain unique, explosion-proof operating lamps which Dr. D'Aunoy designed. He also planned a pneumatic tube system between operating rooms and pathology department, to bring surgeons quick microscopic reports on tissues while they are operating...
Last year Governor Leche, 39, and a year younger than Dr. Vidrine, sent that able man packing-he is now in private practice in New Orleans. Pathologist Joseph Rigney D'Aunoy became dean of University of Louisiana's Medical School, Cardiologist George Samuel Bel became director of Charity Hospital. And with Dean Charles Cassedy Bass of Tulane's Medical School, these doctors set out to regain for Louisiana a good name in the medical profession...
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