Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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W. EMORY III RHTT. II. II. IN JUNE, 191S, W. Emory Burnett received his A.B and a Second Lieutenant's Commission in the Coast Artillery. He just missed going overseas with his battery and remained in camp as an artillery instructor. During the tedious months until the Armistice, Lt. Burnett had time to look back upon his twenty short years of life. He was born February 20, 1898, in Spartanburg, S. C., where his family was identified with the cotton industry. He attended Wolford College in Spartanburg, where he was head of the honor system, president of the student body, a Phi Beta Kappa, Major of the R.O.T.C. and a varsity football player. In early 1919, shortly before mustering out of the Army, Lt. Burnett made a tour of the Eastern medical schools, and in September he entered Jefferson. While he was a junior intern at the Joseph Price Memorial Hospital, lie met Dr. William N. Parkinson. He accompanied Dr. Parkinson on his rounds at Greatheart, Garretson and Norristown. Dr. Parkinson did versions, extractions et al with W. Emory as anesthetist. After a two and a half year internship at Jefferson, Dr Burnett studied in Vienna. Paris, London, and Edinburgh with Dr. Parkinson for six months. Dr. Burnett returned to America full of determination. He would not: 1—enter partnership; (he did with Dr. Parkinson) 2—practice in a small town; (they went to St. Augustine, Fla.) 3—do general practice; (he did). Within a year Dr. Parkinson was chief surgeon for the Florida East Coast R. R. Dr. Burnett succeeded him when Dr. Parkinson came to Philadelphia. 1930 was a busy year. Dr. Burnett became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, joined the Temple staff as a Lecturer in Surgery, Associate Surgeon. He became Associate in Surgery in '33, Assistant Professor of Surgery in '35, Associate Professor of Surgery in '37, and Professor of Clinical Surgery in '40. He was made Diplomate, American Board of Surgery in '41 and Professor of Surgery and Chief Surgeon at Temple in '44 and President of the Staff between '43-'44. In addition, he is Associate Surgeon and Thoracic Consultant of the Philadelphia General Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon for the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, Philadelphia. Since 1933 Dr. Burnett has been doing thoracic surgery on a larger scale. He has contributed a number of reports, papers and exhibits. Since 1943 he has given courses in thoracic surgery for military surgeons. His ability as a teacher is second only to his skill and resourcefulness as a surgeon. Logic and common sense form the basis for presentation Reiterations, emphases, and comical but authentic dramatizations of surgical conditions simplify an otherwise difficult course. Dr. Burnett is reputed for his rare, risque, bcforc'lecture stories. In May, 1938, Dr. Burnett added a new responsibility to the demands of surgery and teaching, when he married Peyton Bolling Jones of Chestnut Hill. They now-have a son, Livingston Emory, two years old. Their home is pleasantly situated in Penn Valley. For a long time Dr. Burnett has had an avid interest in aviation. He found time to solo in ’37 and was soon flying his own Stinson “225. To date he has logged about 4(X) hours. Later he took up blind-flying and Mrs. Burnett often accompanied on these flights. While Dr. Burnett huddled under the hood with his instruments, Mrs. Burnett knitted for the RAF. and w-atched for possible hazards. The war interrupted this program for the duration, consequently he turned his attention (along with Dr. Rosemond) to motor scooters. Until the ban on private flying is lifted, Dr. Burnett will have to practice banked turns as he races Dr. Rosemond around the curves of Righter's Mill Road on his motor scooter. Ten

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 The pubo-rectalis is the chief support of the breadbasket.” When speaking of the milk of human kindness ... I am the cream. Pain in obliterative endarteritis is the cry of a suffering nerve for blood.” May we take one out now. Miss Krause?