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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014
ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 43
Class of 2019 Early Decision applications dip For some, voting law posed issues on Election Day “The whole process really wasn’t very accessible,” says Duke student Vee Floyd Jenna Zhang Local & National Editor
Thu Nguyen | The Chronicle Duke has received more than 3,100 Early Decision applications for the Class of 2019, slightly fewer early applications than were received last year. (See story on page 3.)
Issues with faulty registration and confusion over precinct assignments frustrated some North Carolina voters on Election Day. A number of students and local residents were turned away from voting locations on Election Day due, in part, to the voting restriction laws passed last year eliminating out-of-precinct voting and same-day voter registration. Some students, unaware of which precinct they had been assigned to, waited in lengthy lines at multiple voting locations before finding out at which they were legally able to vote. Others—who had thought they had undergone the process of registering to vote—could not find their names in the registered voters list and were told they could not vote at all. “The whole process really wasn’t very accessible,” said Vanessa Floyd, Trinity ’14, who drove to three different voting locations before she was able to vote due to confusion over her assigned precinct. Others, like senior Nick Albertson, attempted to educate themselves about where to vote by using online resources through the See Voting on Page 12
Duke revolutionizes cancer care, gains national attention Duke Medicine develops a model for cancer care that reduces patient readmission rates Sydney Sarachek The Chronicle Duke Medicine developed a revolutionary model for cancer care that reduces readmission rates among patients. The model was presented by doctors at Duke Medicine at the 2014 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Boston. The collaborative model—which facilitates communications between medical oncologists and palliative care physicians— has been employed by Duke cancer care doctors since 2011. In the past three years, the new model has shown promising statistics in
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reducing the rate of patients readmitted after the patient’s condition. being discharged and the numbers of patients “It’s not rocket science—it was finding out transferred to Intensive Care. how we can improve things, and then going “It is something that we are proud of, it’s for it,” Galanos said. something that’s unique and it’s something To improve the old cancer care modthat’s made quite a bit of el, Riedel and Galanos noise nationally,” said Dr. created a co-rounding t is something that we Richard Riedel, medical method. Upon arriving oncologist at Duke Mediare proud of, it’s some- at the hospital, a pacine who led the developtient’s symptoms are asthing that’s unique and it’s ment of the model. sessed, and—depending Back in 2007, Riedel something that’s made quite on these symptoms— and Dr. Anthony Galanos, a bit of noise nationally. he or she is assigned a palliative medicine spemedical oncologist or a cialist at Duke Medicine, — Richard Riedel palliative care specialist recognized that many paas his or her primary attients with a high symptom burden were be- tendant. The medical oncologist and paling readmitted because their symptoms were liative care providers work together on the not optimally controlled. Riedel and Galanos same team and floor, and meet three times saw an opportunity to dramatically change the daily to discuss all of the patients—which method they had been using—in which the See Cancer on Page 12 palliative care doctor was disconnected from
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