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WEDNESDAY 10:05 A.M. Tuttle is in the OR, assisting in the Jacks "living-related" transplant, when word comes that a liver has been located on the West Coast and can be in Durham by evening. It arrives in a large styrofoam box, bathed in preservative inside a plastic bag--surprisingly mundane packaging for a gift of life. It is after 11 p.m. when Tuttle removes Hunter's shriveled liver and begins the delicate work of suturing all the various vessels and ducts from the new liver into Hunter's system. At 12:30 in the morning, the moment...
Angela Baldwin and her son Tyrece, 6, are in the waiting room of Lincoln Community Health Center. They have come for Tyrece's school physical exam and immunizations. In Durham only six months, Baldwin is glad to have Lincoln Community in her neighborhood. "We didn't know where to take Tyrece," she says. "We happened to drive by the center one day, and so we came here. They took us right...
...always is a hand extended by Duke so welcome in Durham. Earlier this year, when Duke announced plans to acquire Durham Regional Hospital and nearby Raleigh Community Hospital, many in the area were suspicious of its motives. They feared, not without cause, that Duke was trying to take complete control of health care in the region by buying up all the competition. A major worry was that Duke would then jack up prices, as any monopoly would...
...first public hearing on the Duke-Durham Regional merger, held in a black church, city councilman Howard Clement, an African American, voiced a widely shared concern when he stood up and asked, "Can we trust Duke?" It was, and is, the big question, Clement believes, "and the jury is still...
...people of color in Durham, Duke is more than just the hospital; it is "a white university hidebound by Southern tradition," as Clement puts it. Like most members of the town's minority community, Clement never wanted to go to Duke Hospital because it was viewed as a place where "they experimented on you." In 1968, when he was badly bruised in a head-on car collision, Clement screamed at the ambulance driver, "Don't take me to Duke! I don't want to go to Duke...