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Virginia Peterkin interview
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1973-08-10 [date recorded] (Creation)
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Receipt date: 1982-11-04.
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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical records librarian at Vancouver General Hospital, 1949-1967 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-08-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Virginia Peterkin discusses: beginning as a medical records librarian; organization of time and people at VGH; staff size and organization of VGH, 1949; the VGH census; working conditions at VGH before the building of the Centennial Pavilion; improving office procedures at VGH; working conditions (cont'd). TRACK 2: Indications of a social hierarchy at VGH. Impressions of Mr. Hickernell. Socializing within the hospital staff. Working hours. Compensation for reduced allocation of space at new VGH. Increasing paperwork at the records office. The storing of old medical records. Uses of record-keeping machinery. Personal view of years at VGH. (End of interview)
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Vancouver General Hospital. Aural History Programme, 1974
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- Complete transcript on file.
- Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-034.
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Accession number(s): T0514
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speaker: Virginia Peterkin, interviewer: William James Langlois