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Cancer Research at KGH Clinic (1951)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

New Cancer Find Held ‘Promising’ ‘Several’ Melanoma Victims Get Respite with Radioactive Iodine in Knoxville Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 10 (AP) — A cooperative research group made up of Knoxville doctors and University of Tennessee scientists has stumbled on a promising … Continue reading →

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Carnegie Report Derides Tennessee Medical Schools (1910)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Attack Made on Tennessee More Low-Grade Medical Schools than any State Carnegie Foundation Formulates Accusation Some Excuses Made for the Alleged Conditions, but the State Is Charged with Making the Worst use of the Means at Its Command New York, … Continue reading →

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City Agrees To Add Black Nurses at KGH (1952)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Hire Five Nurses at Tenn. Hospital Knoxville, Tenn. — (ANP) — Knoxville General hospital, municipally owned, is to have five additional Negro nurses, bringing the total number to nine. Three years ago, by agreement reached between the hospital officials, city … Continue reading →

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LMU Hospital Almost Became First Baptist Facility

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Baptists May Assume Lincoln Hospital Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 18. — (Special.) — Lincoln Memorial hospital, valued at $100,000, located at Knoxville, but the property of Lincoln Memorial university at Harrogate, which is soon to be closed for financial reasons, may … Continue reading →

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Forty KGH Physicians Argue Against Negro Staff in 1936

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Hospital in Tiff over Shifts by Dr. J. H. Presnell Knoxville, Tenn. — (SNS) — A few days ago an article came out in the daily newspaper stating that forty members of the white staff of the Knoxville General Hospital … Continue reading →

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Fort Sanders’ Student Nurse Injured in 1940

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Injured Nurse Is back in Training A familiar face returned today to the student nursing staff at Fort Sanders Hospital. Miss Margaret Norris, who suffered a skull fracture in April in an automobile accident near Whittle Springs resumed her training … Continue reading →

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Fort Sanders 20 Years Old (1940)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Hospital Launched Feb. 22, 1920; Party Is Held A little more than 20 years ago, two doctors were busy at old Lincoln Memorial Hospital.  Dr. Kyle Copenhaver had a non-infectious patient.  The late Dr. L. L. Sheddan had an infectious … Continue reading →

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Leader of Black Nursing Association Spoke in Knoxville in 1940

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Mabel K. Staupers Will Speak Here Local Colored Nurses Will Hear Her Mrs. Mabel K. Staupers, executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, will come to Knoxville Tuesday, March 5, to address a series of meetings of … Continue reading →

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Knoxville Couple Invents Medical Stapler in 1940

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Next Thing to Zipper Young Couple Here Invents ‘Stapler’ for Speedy Clipping of Incisions Lynn Humphreys and Pretty Wife Hope To Make Fortune from Idea by Ed Mitchell, News-Sentinel Staff Writer If you’ve got an operation you haven’t finished showing … Continue reading →

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Obituary of Annie L. Washburne, LMU Graduate Nurse

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

Death came to General Hospital at 2:30 p.m. yesterday ending the long life of Miss Annie L. Washburne, one of the first hospital trained nurses to practice in Knoxville.  Miss Washburne, who was 77 years old, received her training at … Continue reading →

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