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Stuart Bondurant, MD'53, HS'53-'56
Some Random Thoughts on Sources of the Duke Medical Legacy
Some Random Thoughts on Sources of the Duke Medical Legacy
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“For many years, Eugene Stead was physician to the Methodist Retirement Home near Duke, and he would occasionally invite me or others to walk to the home and see patients with him. One day, as we approached the home, he asked, ‘Stuart, who do you think is most important to the health of the people in the home?’ Since it was a rhetorical question, I asked for his answer, and he responded, ‘The hairdresser, because she makes more people feel better about themselves, and they in turn make others feel better and behave more healthily.’ Though he didn’t say so, I have no doubt that Gene sometimes prescribed visits to the hairdresser in preference to drugs.”
In This Essay
  • Reflections on the influence of Wilburt Davison, David T. Smith, and Eugene Stead
  • Talmadge Peele's attention to detail extends to cocktail hour
  • Philip Handler defies Albert Einstein's wishes
  • Duncan Heatherington, Wiley Forbus, Frank Engel, Jim Warren, Jack Myers, and John Hickam leave lasting impressions
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Stuart Bondurant, MD'53, HS'53-'56
Biography
President John DeGiogia of Georgetown University noted that Stuart Bondurant must have made career choices in order to see good college basketball, thus spending time at Duke, Georgetown, Indiana, and UNC. Bondurant was a medical student, resident, and fellow at Duke from 1949 to 1959. Among his many roles, he was on the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Indiana; served as chair of Medicine, president, and dean of Albany Medical College, dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and interim executive vice president and executive dean of Georgetown University Medical Center; president of the American College of Physicians, Association of American Physicians, American Clinical and Climatological Association, and interim president of the Institute of Medicine; chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center; and vice president of the American Heart Association and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians, London.

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