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...