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October 23, 2006 Volume 15 No. 20




50 Years of Pastoral Care

Fifty years ago when Duke Hospital hired its first chaplain, he was given a chair and a desk in the waiting room of Minot Ward on the second floor.

“Patients and family members were sitting in the waiting room, so obviously I didn’t spend a lot of time in the office,” recalled Wes Aitken with a laugh.

Aitken, who worked part-time at the hospital and part-time at an alcohol rehabilitation center for the first two years, went on to...


Deborah Morgan, a chaplain, with Pastoral Services, provides pastoral counseling a patient at Duke Hospital.


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