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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 99
REDICK DRAINS WAKE 2 years later, safety still DUHS priority
With new look, Duke avoids 3-game skid by
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Tuesday marks the two-year anniversary of Jesica Santillan’s death—and the start of a grassroots campaign for patient safety measures within Duke University Health System. As a result of the series of avoidable mistakes that led to Santillan’s death, hospital administrators put into place efforts to change the culture of DUHS. These continuing efforts seek to bring patient safety to the forefront of all minds—from the chancellor to the patients, from the doctors to the janitors. But DUHS, in its quest for a culture of safety, has experienced a series of other setbacks Jn .recent years: Two children were injured in unrelated incidents at Duke University Hospital in the summer of 2003. A patient at Durham Regional Hospital jumped out of a fifthfloor window Aug. 11, 2004. And surgical tools were cleaned in elevator hydraulic fluid at Duke Health Raleigh and Durham Regional Hospital throughout November and December 2004.
Matt Sullivan
THE CHRONICLE
Duke called in a few fresh faces at Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday night, but even the new-look WAKE Blue DevDUKE -102 ils know what number to dial in an emergency; four. With 9:11 remaining against fifth-ranked Wake Forest and No. 7 Duke facing the possibility of its first three-game losing streak in nine years, JJ. Redick looked in to Shelden Williams clutching onto the ball, swarmed by Demon Deacons in the post. Then, in one speed-dial punch, Redick caught a pass at the top of the key, drained a three-pointer and felt Wake’s Jamaal Levy clip his hand to foul out. The four-point play sent Redick’s arms in the air and capped a 39-point Blue Devil scoring outburst in the first 11 minutes of the second half. But even with 33 points from No. 4 and the lead stretched to 16, Duke would need all of Redick’s career-high 38 points to finish off its most productive game of the season, 102-92. “I didn’t think the game was over. There were nine minutes left, and I remembered what happened when we played them in Winston-Salem and we came back,” said Redick, whose 11 points in the last two minutes against the Demon Deacons Feb. 2 nearly completed a Blue Devil comeback. “I was just hoping that we could get enough stops and make enough plays to pull it out.” Chris Paul and Trent Strickland brought Wake (22-4, 10-3 in the ACC) to within 11 as the clock passed five minutes, but Lee Melchionni, who finished with 15points on 5-of-6 shooting, nailed a deep three that head coach Mike Krzyzewski called the biggest shot of the game for Duke (194, 94). Melchionni extended the Blue Devils’ lead earlier in the half with seven points in 1:20, after which he took a charge for Justin Gray’s fourth personal and bumped Paul to instigate a
Steve Veres
THE CHRONICLE
SEE SAFETY ON PAGE 5
Chronicle elects Darby next editor
JJ.Redick (above) connects on a game-breaking four-point play over Wake Forest's Jamaal Levy in the second halfSunday night Redick scored a careerhigh 38 points and went 9for-ISfrom the field as Duke shot nearly 60 percent overall. Shelden Williams (right) held his own in the paint, totaling 12 points and grabbing nine rebounds.
technical foul But even in a game when reserves Patrick Davidson and Patrick Johnson started because of strong practices following Thursday’s loss to Virginia Tech, this night belonged to Redick. The junior scored Duke’s first nine points and closed it out with the last five at the freethrow line, playing all 40 minutes while draining 6-of-10 from beyond the arc. The Blue DeriIs
Officials admit that every misstep calls into question DUHS reputation for safety. While they agree there is progress to be made in a wide-reaching system that includes three hospitals, a medical school and other satellite operations, they hold that Duke maintains safe facilities. “I think Duke Hospital is as safe as teaching hospitals are anywhere. That’s not to say that teaching hospitals are all extremely safe places to be —they aren’t. We are no different. No better, no worse,” said Dr. Peter Kilbridge, associate chief information officer for padent safety at DUHS. “We need to continue to focus on understanding why things go wrong from a systems point of view, rather than focus on blaming certain individuals.” As current administrators have noticed, a change in atmosphere cannot take hold immediately. But corrective action is in progress, they say. Dr. Catherine Gilliss, vice chancellor for nursing affairs and dean of the School of Nursing,
shot nearly 60 percent from the field overall. “We just didn’t do a good job of playing defense before he caught it,” Demon Deacons head coach Skip Prosser said. “Once he caught it he was making every shot.” Redick dropped 19 points in each half, taking his time to find screens in a physical, back-andSEE WAKE ON SW PAGE 4
From staff reports The editorial staff of The Chronicle has elected sophomore Seyward Darby to serve as the newspaper’s editor for its 101st year of publication. At a meeting Friday afternoon, Darby, now the newspaper’s University editor, was named editor of The Chronicle and president of Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., the independent corporation responsible for publishing the campus’ student-run daily newspaper. Darby will succeed junior Karen Hauptman for a one-year term beginning May 15. As editor, Darby will determine the newspaper’s content and lead a staff of more than 100 student volunteer reporters, editors, photographers and layout
designers.
Her responsibilities as DSPC president will include preserving
PETER
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Sophomore Seyward Darby will be editor ofThe Chronicle in its 101st year. the corporation’s dual mission of providing journalism opportunities for Duke students and delivering information to the SEE EDITOR ON PAGE 6