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Duke Med is grateful too. It is affiliated with the center, which is only a few miles from its main hospital, and much prefers to handle such routine checkups here rather than in its own high-priced facilities. Lincoln Community is one of dozens of affiliations and joint ventures that Duke has with local medical facilities spread throughout the 27-county region targeted as its turf. Serving 29,000 registered patients, who made 102,000 visits last year, Lincoln is a gleaming example of Duke's community outreach at work...
...Carolina receives the bulk of government funding for indigent care in the city, Duke and Durham Regional Hospital together provide 90% of that care. "I don't think they've always gotten the credit for what they do in the community," says Dr. Evelyn D. Schmidt, executive director of Lincoln Community Health Center...
...ultimate test of Duke's affiliations and joint ventures is how patients in the communities it moves into feel about the care they receive. Angela Baldwin says Lincoln Community did a good job on Tyrece, and she plans to come back. That's good news for Duke, because even when hospitals buy each other up in big-dollar deals, medical practices are built one patient at a time...
...even in Hollywood, would have ventured out with a show based on the preposterous premise that during the Civil War, an English nobleman of Moorish descent somehow winds up in America, where he maneuvers himself into a position on Abraham Lincoln's kitchen staff, unless he or she were intoxicated. Once they sobered up and checked out the pilot episode--a heavy-handed, totally unfunny spoof of the current White House scandal--they would have asked themselves, "What were we thinking?" and pulled the plug on the series out of sheer embarrassment...
...Mort Nathan, who once wrote for The Golden Girls and who are white, claimed that making light of slavery was the furthest thing from their mind. "We thought there was a way to do an over-the-top satire about the Clinton White House by disguising it as the Lincoln White House," Fanaro explains. "We came up with the idea that there is this English nobleman, and we would show everything through his eyes. Then we thought, 'What if it was a black guy who was an English nobleman, a well-spoken, well-educated man who has his own manservant...