The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 47

PASSING II THE COUKIEH-Jol LOriSYIILK, 51DVV M( oCiuRIR 4, i SECTION Hancock, Kentucky Doctors9 New Leader, Is A Sentimental Conserv tiirn out students. Put there is no objection to a second medical school if the State csn afford that luxury at this time." Next-biggest need for doctors is their public relations, Dr. Man been interested in it for 0 years." For many ears. he has been on the executive committee of the Kentucky division, American Cancer Society. He was the divi- B-k in 1 he president of the old Louisville Board of Health.

He has heen president of the Jefferson County fedical Society, and twice has been a member of the House of Dele- gates of the American Medical nreanizations too numerou detail. He is a Catholic and member of Cathedral of The Assumption Tarish. He is the husband of the former Marie Elizabeth See'bach, and the father of a freshman at A native of Jeffersonville, InL, tlie L.ouivilIe general onrgron alo has a leaning toward history both reading and writing it. He has a warm' spot for the Irish. And he thinks doctors would do well to remedy their public relations.

Br ROBERT CLARK, Courier-Journal Staff Writer Association. Iligftrr Job Ahead Next March, he will assume the presidency of the 13 state Southeastern Surgical Congress. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, a member of the advisory board of Nazareth College, a director of Kentucky's Blue Cross and Blue Shield agencies and a member of other medical and surgical i trip Dr. Hancock met an Austrian and a German who were among his captors on that Easter Sunday and who surrendered to him, wounded, after his release. Dr.

Hancock won battle stars for four campaigns, plus the French Croix de Guerre and the Bron7e Star, before his discharge as a full colonel in 1945. Dr. Hancock is a general surgeon and rated as one of Louisville's best. Busy At Ever In a day when surgery itself is developing subspecialties, the general surgeon may find his field shrinking before the brain surgeon, the chest surgeon, the bone specialist, and so on. But Dr.

Hancock is as busy as. ever in the operating room, mainly at St. Joseph Infirmary. Modestly, he attributes this to Louisville's growth. And he includes other general surgeons with himself.

"Most of us are as busy as we were," he says. His work now is mainly concerned with goiter, breast and abdomen. Much of it involves cancer, "probably because I've cork feels. He believes that former Tresi- dent Truman and his federal se- curity chief, Oscar Ewing, released deliberate misinformation which gave the medical profession a "black eye." Some newspapers aided the TrumanEwing cause, the doctor asserts. Rut in the main, there is no quarrel with the press, he adds.

"Most misunderstanding is due to lark of information," the surgeon says. Doctors must realize this, he adds. They must cultivate the good will of news media and most of all, "they must give better medical service to the people of the state." Dr. Hancock's record and experience speak for themselves as to his ability and leadership. When only a sophomore at the University of Louisville, he won the Woodcock Medal for scholar- ship and all around excellence.

In 1946, he received the State Medical Association's E. M. Howard Medal for outstanding service to medicine. the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, at Baltimore, Miss Johanna Bertha Hancock. The Hancocks live at 80 Valley Road "only 10 minutes from any hospital." "We've been very happy here," he said at his home last week.

"You know, we've never bad a bad neighbor here. "I always try to get along with people. You can like nearly everybody if you get to know them." 4th St. 4021 Dixie Highway HOME REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT LOANS There is some sentiment in Dr. Hancock, as one might expect, for the Irish.

His grandfather came to America from Ireland. And last summer, on a European trip, he attended a meeting of the Irish Medical Association. On that same journey, ex-Army Doctor Hancock retraced the steps he took with the 106th Evacuation Hospital in England, France, Germany and Austria in 1944 and 1945. Prisoner of A'asis It was on that first wartime journey that Lieutenant Colonel Hancock and six men were taken prisoner by the Nazis on Easter Sunday, 1945. They were held 12 hours, until the Germans in that sector were defeated and the Americans released.

SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS Up to 36 Months to Pay sion's first president, about 15 years ago. In 1953, he was given the American Cancer Society's Award for Distinguished Service. Homespun philosophy is only part of Dr. Hancock's thinking. He is facing reality about tho problems before Kentucky doctors.

"The crying need is a better distribution of doctors," he says. He agrees with Dr. G. Y. Graves of Bowling Green, whom he succeeded as K.S.M.A- president, that local communities should try to inspire local sons to go to medical schools, and to maintain their home ties.

Then they will be inclined to, return to serve Kentucky's rural-doctor needs. Taket A'o Side Concerning a second medical school for Kentucky, as proposed by some K.S.M.A. members, Dr. Hancock feels he should not take iH0c Rf h. h.

nffr th! mm. ment: "With some additional help, the University of Louisville can 3 Startlingly, on last summer's No Mortgage No Endorsers No Fees Quick Service 417 W. Market St. 624 S. 3 WOOD hud ULLrJ HE IMPRESSES ONE as a straightforward man sincere and gracious a man with eyes on the future and with a love for the past.

This man is a highly skilled medical specialist. But he is also a conservative man, a man whose nature contains more than a touch of sentimentality. This is the surgeon who took over leadership of Kentucky doc-tors 10 days ago. He is the new president of the Kentucky State Medical Association. His name is James Duffy Hancock, but the "James" is excess baggage.

He abbreviates it to Of course, during World War II, the Army used Dr. Hancock's first name. He remarks: "They made you part your name in the middle." An Old Custom- His full name, and more, also appears in the appropriate space on the University of Louisville Medical Schdol diploma hung on Dr. Hancock's office wall. "James Duffy Hancock of Indiana," it reads, following an old but now-abandoned custom of listing the graduate's home state beside his name.

The inscription on the diploma is part of the key to Dr. Hancock's character. He is the product of a relatively small town, Jeffersonville, in birth and upbringing. His father, the late Dr. C.

F. C. Hancock, was a general-practice doctor there for 50 years. Young Duffy, balancing the scales at 165 pounds, played tackle on the Jeffersonville High School football team, and was "the heaviest man on the team." His hair has turned nearly white now a little early for his 54 years and he weighs in at a solid 200 pounds. In The Stan It was in the stars from the beginning that Duffy Hancock should become a doctor.

Not only his father, but two uncles were doctors. Among the three, they practiced 163 years. "I was never interested in anything else," Dr. Hancock says. How he got interested in history, even Dr.

Hancock is not certain. To be sure, his historical bent Is mainly in the field of medicine. But it includes not only readership, but authorship. One of Dr. Hancock's historical essays, published in the journal American Medicine, is on Oliver Wendell Holmes.

To the uninitiated, such as college English majors, Holmes was the author of "The Chambered DELIVERY to of Callus today for quick Qi 1 i Cabinet Sink I I VA" I V'ilM 1 itlltl FRFF Jee'd fully 'design Dr. J. Duffy Hancock No quarrel with the press Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides." To doctors, the same man is known as professor of anatomy and dean at the Harvard University Medical School. Johann Gregor Mendel, who developed the famous Mendelian Law of Inheritance, is the subject of another of Dr. Hancock's writings.

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