PT association honors Branch
Dr. Eleanor F. Branch, director of
graduate studies in the Department of
Physical iTierapy, has received the North
Carolina Physical Therapy Association's
highest honor.
BICP class on tour
Scotland High School's Biomedical
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project
class is touring the medical center
today.'
The Laurinburg school is one of four
participating in this educational
program which was begun this fall by
Duke, the Fayetteville Area Health
Education Foundation and the N.C.
Department of Public Instruction (see
Intercom, 9/9/77).
The association presented the Olive V.
Wortman Award to Branch at its fall
meeting, held recently in Atlantic Beach.
Recipients of the award are chosen for
their efforts toward improving physical
therapy through activities on the local,
state and national levels.
Such personal qualities as warmth,
enthusiasm, dedication and industry are
important considerations in the selection
process, according to Annette S.
Boutwell, executive secretary of the
organization.
Branch served as president of the
North Carolina Physical Therapy
Association from 1963-65 and has held
several posts in the American Physical
Therapy Association.
An honors graduate of Middlebury
College in 1948, she joined the Duke
faculty as an instructor in 1953. She
earned both an M. A. degree in physiology
and a Ph.D. in pathology at Duke.
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DR. ELEANOR F. BRANCH, award-winning physical therapist
Professional news
Dr. Norman F.
Ross, associate pro
fessor of dentistry in
the Department of
Surgery, is the new
president of the
Dental Foundation
of North Carolina,
Inc.
He had served as
president-elect for
the past year and
became president
last week during the annual meeting of the
organization's board of trustees in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Montague Brown, professor of health
administration, presented a discussion of
"Consumer Choice Health Plan: Impact on
Rural America" at a National Conference on
Possible Effects of the Payment Mechanism on
the Health Care Delivery System.
The conference, sponsored by the National
Center for Health Services Research, was held
Nov. 7 at Skyland Lodge, Shenandoah National
Park, Va.
Earlier' in the fall, Brown spoke on
"Challenges to Trustees," at a Health
Governance Symposium at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, and "Changing in
Delivery Systems," at the Maryland Medical
Staff Conference in Williamsburg, Va.
Volunteers sought
A new, safe treatment for acne is being
tested in the medical center, and
volunteers are needed for the study.
Participants will receive $25 at the
completion of the study, which will begin
after Jan. 1.
For further information, call 684-4167.
Dr. Kenneth D. Hall, professor of
anesthesiology, has been elected director of
district 27 (North and South Carolina) of the
American Society of Anesthesiologists.
He began his three-year term in October.
Hall, who holds B.A. and M.D. degrees from
Duke, was appointed to the faculty here in
1958. He was promoted to full professor in
1968.
Hall directs the Blood Gas Laboratory and
cardiothoracic anesthesia. He is the unit
physician of the recovery room.
Dr. Jared Schwartz, associate in pathology,
has resigned to take a position as staff
pathologist at Presbyterian Hospital in
Charlotte. He assumed his duties there Dec. 1.
Margret Rice, assistant director of the
Medical Records Department, has been named
secretary to Region VII of the North Carolina
Medical Record Association. Augusta H.
Kirkland, medical records librarian, was
selected to serve as chairman of the
organization's exhibit committee.
Dr. Joseph L. Wagner, director of the
Division of Laboratory Animal Resources,
attended a conference on Animal Care Facility
Management sponsored by the Yale University
School of Medicine, Dec. 12-14.
Wagner was one of 30 directors of animal
facilities selected to attend the conference,
which was designed to examine current
management practices within the field of
laboratory animal science and comparative
management.
The meeting was held at Seven Spring
Center, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.
Dr. Wendell F. Rosse,
professor and chief of
the Division of Hema-
tology-Oncology, spoke
on "The Immune De
struction of Red Cells"
in the sixth Austin
Weisberger Lecture of
the Case Western Re
serve University School
of Medicine, Cleveland,
Ohio, Nov. 10.
Twas a speech filled with sound and fury
By Joe Sigler
When the speaker got up at 8 o'clock last Thursday evening
and suggested that his after-dinner talk would take an hour and
a half, a lot of people in the audience smiled and. a couple even
snickered.
But Dr. Robert W. Carney was even truer to his word than
that. It was 9:40 when his speech to the Duke Management Club
ended.
And in that hour and 40 minutes, he proceeded to take apart,
ridicule, dispute, counter and negate a little of every thing from
personnel departments to Sigmund Freud to Dr. Benjamin
Spock.
"The inventor of personnel administration was the manufacturer of filing
cabinets."
"Personnel does perform a very important function, and as soon as I find out
what it is, I'll let you know."
"Everything he (Freud) ever wrote was written on the 10 years'
introspection of his own psychotic self. Here's a sick mind writing about his
own sick emotional body, telling the rest of us what human behavior is like."
"Sure he's (Spock) a pediatrician. That doesn't give him any insight into
how your kid should behave at the breakfast table."
Carney was, however, very high on Robert Carney and
perhaps told his audience more than they wanted to know about
growing up poor in Pennsylvania.
Carney, a professor of management at Georgia Tech,
extended his talk in the Courtyard Dining Room to the last
minute before having to leave to catch a plane at Raleigh-
Durham Airport, and some in the audience may have regretted
that the airport was not a longer travel distance from Duke.
Communications, or the lack of it, is one of the complaints
often voiced about management today. But Carney suggested
that "maybe we already communicate enough."
"You're supposed to listen more to.your subordinates. You're supposed to
'give them more participation in decision making. You're supposed to delegate
more to them.
"Did it ever occur to you that maybe a hell of a lot of you already delegate too
much, listen too much, when you ought to have them working and ought to be
working instead of listening?
Later in his talk he returned to communications, saying that
he had analyzed the fights he had had with his wife over the 29
years and 11 months of their marriage.
"You know what I discovered? We do not fight because we do not understand
each other. We fight because we understand each other perfectly."
(Continued on page 4)
DR. ROSS
DR. ROSSE
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MANAGEMENT CLUB members and guests
heard Dr. Robert Carney, professor of
management at Ceorgu Tech, speak... ...and speak... ...and speak... (Photos by John Becton)