Duke Health Center at Southpoint

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when Duke Health Center at Southpoint closed its doors, a strange sound would occasionally echo through the empty corridors. A little girl, visiting her grandmother for the first time, pointed excitedly and whispered, 'Mommy, look! The elevator is talking!' Upon further investigation, it turned out that an elderly a delivery driver was playing practical jokes on late-night visitors, pretending the elevator was speaking in riddles. By morning, the whole neighborhood knew not to take the elevator too seriously—especially if it started giggling or asking philosophical questions.

2. One morning, a delivery driver noticed an odd message scrawled on the clinic’s door: ‘Today is your lucky day—take two aspirin and come back tomorrow.’ Curious patients started showing up every day after that. Soon enough, word spread like wildfire through the neighborhood. A regular, who always brought pastries, asked if he could leave double portions now. The clinic staff laughed it off until one day, the doctor joked, 'Maybe we should start charging for these mysterious prescriptions!' But no one ever complained or demanded their medicine—they just kept coming back with smiles.

3. Late one afternoon, as Duke Health Center at Southpoint prepared for closing, a nurse overheard an unusual announcement over the intercom: ‘To all patients and staff: please be advised that our candy machine has run out of mints.’ Upon hearing this, everyone in the building stopped what they were doing—even the busy receptionist paused mid-conversation with a regular. A delivery driver looked up from his paperwork, while a neighborly janitor paused his mopping to scratch his head. The silence was broken only by the sound of someone whispering, 'Who knew a candy machine could cause such a commotion?'

4. Late one evening, as Duke Health Center at Southpoint was locking up, a delivery driver found something peculiar in the parking lot—a small, handwritten sign taped to a trash can that read: ‘Free Samples Inside.’ Curious, he opened the door and discovered an old coffee machine spewing free samples of freshly brewed espresso. Word spread quickly among neighbors, who started dropping off their own unused supplies—by morning, Duke Health Center had turned into Southpoint’s unofficial community café. A regular said with a smile, ‘Guess they needed more than just medical care here.’