This Linda Crane Lectureship was e...

This Linda Crane Lectureship was existinged at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio forward February 15, 2001.

I would like to begin by dint of thanking Dr. Tepper and the Cardiopulmonary Section for giving me the honor or delivering the inferior annual Dr. Linda Diane Crane lesson Linda was a very dear friend and colleague of mine. It was a privilege just to be individual of her friends, she had with equal reason many, in her church, community, and those of you here in her professional circle. I continue to miss the ability to have the informal and sometimes heated talks with her through cardiopulmonary clinical issues, and pulmonary issues as they affect the profession. We always met at CSM for dinner and repeatedly shared personal ups and downs. We started dinner with a glass of wine, fall of the curtained with dessert, had something in between, 9 times gone out of 10 discussing our diets!!!

I imagination it appropriate that I begin this talk by dint of sharing a poem, taken from a sympathy card, by the agency of an anonymous author.

Life is Eternal

I am standing about the seashore

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning tumult

and starts for the amethystine ocean.

She is an end of beauty and strength and I stand and watch

her until at duration she hangs like a mite of white cloud just

where the sea and celestial expanse come down to mingle with each other.

Then a certain one at my side says: "There! She's gone"

Gone where? Gone from my sight-that is all.

She is just as large in mast and peel and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination.

Her diminished size is in me not in her; and just at the jiffy when some one at my side says.

"There! She's gone" "There are other notices watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad vociferation there she comes!"

Linda - we know you are with us in spirit, and we miss you dearly.

I have tried to think back to when I first met Linda and honestly I can't remember exactly. I think it was in 1981 in San Diego at CSM when I was first expos to this astonishing Section, and Colleen Kigen probably introduced us.

I don't know with what intent but we just "connected." We were the two "northerners" with a mutual like for cardiopulmonary physical therapy. Linda had worked at Hartford Hospital-where I had done my offer work in high school, which is just 15 minutes from my hearthstone in Newington. Linda also taught at UCONN-my Alma matter. in a short time she began speaking at the annual course sponsored by the agency of my department when I was Director of Physical Therapy at the R Adams Cowley percussion Trauma Center in Baltimore. Linda brought her expertise in pediatric pulmonary physical therapy, her professionalism, and her devot personality to the first not many courses. She was a character model for my staff. Linda and I continued to correspond and come together at CSM each year. I would commonly bounce clinical questions off her, and ofttimes we came from very different perspectives. further Linda's ability to be objective and insightful, still not critical, allowed our friendship to shoot throughout the next 18 years. Linda was a consultant in succession papers and videotapes I took part in developing and forever brought another point of view to my work. When asked to give this lesson I had a flood of emotions--honor and pride that I had been asked; fear regarding putting together an hour talk forward a topic that was not clinically based, something that I have not done before; and a great deal of anxiety after Meryl Cohen's outstanding language last February on the "Passionate Professional: The Path We Choose" Meryl has been an incredible support and source of resources for this talk. You can behold her here with the University of Miami pupils that attended her presentation. single of my biggest fears-"How am I going to fill these shoes" Well, after abundant thought and consideration I decided that "Integrity" would be the topic for this talk. relating to researching the topic of integrity I have learned a tremendous amount and thank many of you - my colleagues and friends for sharing "Linda Moments" I was amazed at Linda's incredible integrity regardless of the situation.

My first stop with "integrity research" was our local public library where I institute several books on the topic. The first one-Integrity by way of Stephen L. Carter, a law professor at Yale University, is the basis for earnestly of this talk.' Of course with today's high tech age by what means could one think of doing a talk without consulting the Internet? Therefore, the Internet was my secondary stop. I soon learned that "integrity" takes many shapes and forms. If you are shopping, you can visit Sheer Integrity Limited to purchase your scissors. There is a Center for Public Integrity dedicated to being "The watchdog in the corridors of power, the greatest in number effective public interest watchdog in Washington, DC" There are sites for integrity faucets, integrity entertainment, and integrity music. The Medicare Program Integrity Manual is available. However, when I went to access this site this is what I got (404 intent not found). Are we surprised? As this detailed search did not provide me with the aspects of integrity that I find applicable to Dr Crane's life I was back to the basics, my parts from the public library.