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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 20,1968
Team doctor wants to be psychiatrist
By DICK HVALE Kansan Sports Writer
An Englishman training to be a psychiatrist also patches up KU football players.
It sounds as unusual as a sunny day in London. Yet, Dr. John L. Barton, a native of Nottingham, England, has been Jayhawk team physician since September, 1967.
Barton attends to any KU athlete but accompanies only the football team to out-of-town games. He also sits on the bench for Jayhawk basketball games played at Allen Field House.
He handles "anything that comes up from colds to broken bones." Sometimes he refers serious cases to other doctors.
"I'm kind of a sorting station." he quipped.
Barton said that Don Autry's broken leg was the most serious case that he has treated this semester. Autry, a sophomore tailback, sustained the injury in the Indiana game Sept. 28. Dr. Leonard F. Peltier, head of the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center, has since taken over the case.
This season, Barton has been frequently attending to athletes sidelined with pulled muscles.
"As the season has progressed, we're now getting more sprained ankles and minor knee injuries," he said.
Barton has worked at KU on two occasions, once from January 1964 to July 1965, and again from September 1967 to next February. He took over as team physician for six months in 1965 when his predecessor, Dr. Kollbjorn Jensen, left for his home in Norway.
Although he will go back to England next February to complete his training in psychiatry, Barton said that he hopes to return to the United States some day to practice psychiatry in a student health center.
Barton likes the U.S., particularly the Midwest mainly because of the people.
"The people in the Midwest are by far the friendliest people my wife and I have ever met," he said. "The people in England
or the East and West coasts of the United States are not as outgoing."
He said that he is also attracted to this country by the higher standard of living and by the weather.
Barton first heard of the available exchange fellowship at KU's Student Health Center in 1963 while he was talking with a friend in a pub on the outskirts of Leeds, England. His friend, Dr. Kerry Finlay, who was from the Leeds Student Health Center, was informed of the vacated exchange fellowship at the 1963 World Student Health Congress in Rome.
Barton, who was doing a residency in psychiatry at the time, applied for the fellowship because he "thought a year in the States would be broadening."
After working at Watkins Hospital from January 1964 to January 1965, he shouldered the additional position of team physician. During the six months that he held the job, Barton spent most of his time taking care of the football players at spring practices.
Barton sailed home to England in July, 1965, so that he could continue his psychiatric training. In September, 1967, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital, asked Barton to come back to Kansas on another exchange fellowship.
"Having nothing to lose, my wife and I came," he said. After arriving at KU, Schwegler asked Barton to resume his duties as team physician.
"I was not keen on the idea," Barton recalls. "I would have to be away on five weekends and be at practice until late at night."
He eventually accepted the position with some reluctance. Now, however, he does not regret that decision.
"I am happy that I did (accept the position) and have found it rewarding," he said.
Barton said he has enjoyed the job, partly because of the athletes and coaches he has met. "I have felt the same things they felt," he said. "I have seen them in their moments of despair and their moments of glory."
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John L. Barton, KU's team physician, examines the left leg of middle guard Emery Hicks. Barton will return to England, his native land, shortly after the Jayhawks play Penn State in the Orange Bowl.
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