Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OSPITAL ADMINISTRATION X-RAY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PHYSICAL THERAPY STUDENT LIFE

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ADMINISTRATION MEDICINE DENTISTRY PHARMACY NURSING

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Since the beginning of human life on the face of the earth, disease has played an important role in the daily living of man. Initially disease took its toll with man offering little if any resistance through drugs or treatments. Because of the lack of understanding of the disease pro- cesses people believed that disease was the infestation of or the occupying of a person by an evil spirit which could be cast out by going through various rituals and, or, offering sacrifices. As the knowledge of disease increased these rituals and sacrifices decreased in number, and the effective treatment of disease processes progressed from zero, to where it is today in a fashion somewhat similar to that of X , where n equals the knowledge of diseases at any given time from the beginning of medical knowledge to the present. It has only been through the development of this medical knowledge that the proper care and treatment of the patient with his disease process has been realized in this year- 1963. Because of its magnitude, it is necessary that each individual facet of the medical profession work closely together and co-operate closely to obtain the highest efficiency with respect to the care and treatment of the patient. It is to this cause that hundreds of young men and women have dedicated their lives. In order to qualify for this, these young people have to spend years of training in the various components of medical education, be it medi- cine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, physical therapy, medi- cal technology, hospital administration, graduate studies, x-ray technology, or dietetic work. In order to qualify as a professional person in the various fields, an individual must first become a student. It is of the student that this yearbook is primarily concerned, and in order to properly convey to the readers what the student and his life really means we, the editors, present this section— STUDENT LIFE AT THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA