SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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2 'vii r., I Brooklyn Hospital The BROOKLYN-CUMBERLAND MEDI- CAL CENTER, consists of two general hospitals, the BROOKLYN HOSPITAL, a voluntary hospi- tal with 375 beds, and the CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL, a municipally owned institution of 426 beds. Now undergoing a considerable amount of growth and reconstruction, the Center has full- time chiefs in all major departments, plus a number of full-time assistants, all with faculty rank. Many of us spent long, but instructive, hours of training here during clerkships in medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and surgery. First to memory are the Chiefs, who, with pa- tience, guidance, and often frightening grand Cumberland Hospital rounds, helped to mould those who served here into confident, mature physicians. It doesn't take much to recall What afamous man once said, For one to be in health and wise, He must early go to bed! But alas, the Chiefsfor whom we toiled This proverb had not heard . . . For when our minds were slow and dull And vision slightly blurred . . . A VOICE would comefrom nowhere, And through the place resound, GET UP! LOOK SMART! and BE ALERT! It's time to start GRAND ROUNDS! Model ofthe new Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Center as planned. The JEWISH HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN, a voluntary hospital of 623 beds, provides regular and elective instruction in medicine, surgery, ped- iatrics, pathology, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, and anesthesiology. An especially popular choice among Third Years students on Medical clerkships, the teaching programs are excellent and the weeks spent here most pleasant.

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uw n Qjjflliliflg il Q1 en affiliated hospitals, located throughout the borough of Brooklyn and near-by Long Island, have provided a rich and rewarding variety of clinical experience for Third and Fourth Year students at Downstate. At these institutions, the student was given the opportunity of observing and participating ir1 the practice of medicine as it is carried out in large voluntary, municipal, state, and federal hospitals. Our associations with these outlying hospitals have provided us with a broad cross-section of patient populations and clinical entities from which to leam, on a scale not possible at any single institution. Many of tl1e staff of these hospitals serve on the Faculty at Downstate, and, along with other attendings and house staff, have been enthusiastic and ambitious in iilling their preceptorial assign- ments. Experience gained at these hospitals will serve to mould us into better physicians in the future. The LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, circa 1860: origin of Downstate. The LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL is the original medical school hospital in Brook- lyn. A voluntary general hospital with 567 beds, it is utilized for regular and elective instruction in the major clinical subjects. We extend a special thanks to the staff here, for each hard-working member did his best to provide us with the learning we sought. Every day was a new experi- ence, and we gained by doing as well as by seeing. We will remember these men, not only as excellent physicians, but also as outstanding teachers.

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Our visits to the LONG ISLAND JEWISH HOSPITAL led us out of Brooklyn and brought us to a 268-bed voluntary hospital in New Hyde Park, where we served clerkships in surgery, The MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER is a voluntary general hospital with 580 beds, and, as in the case of other hospitals, we had an op- portunity to serve clerkships for regular and elective instruction in medicine, surgery, ob- stetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, anesthesiology, and environmental medicine. The staff will long be remembered. Everyone, whether house officer or attending, did his best to guide and encourage us. There was always time to teach, no matter how busy or how great the man. pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Many of us also did elective work here in some of the major clinical subjects. While at Long Island Jewish, we found our- selves face to face with a new and conflicting situation. Although very enthusiastic about our work, we often were given only limited responsi- bility, for our patient came to the hospital with his or her own private physician. This altered somewhat the type of work we were asked to do: Young man, the doctor said to me, The baby is now due ....... . This time YOU will deliver, For to me ..... it isn't new .... But before the tiny babe began To show its little toesies, He gave to me one last command . . . GET TWO PIZZAS WITH ANCHOVIES! In spite of having egos boosted by patients calling us Doctor Cand by our mothers, to whom we were accomplished physicians after the first day in anatomyl, every now and then something would happen, reminding us that our correct places as Third and Fourth Year students were still rather low on the totem: I studied .... studied many years . To reach thisjinal goal. To get to work with Kantrowitz l'd have gladly sold my soul! And now . . . the momentfinally came . . . TOASSlST!. . . OH BOY.. . ATLAST! While awaiting my assignment, I assembled knowledge past. WOULD he let me prep the patient? COULD I think to do things right? Then . . .alas . . .the day was over... l'djust HELD RETRACTORS ..... TIGHT! Maimonides Hospital also operates the Coney Island Hospital. At Coney Island Hospital, Our experience was vast. We learned to give a hypo And even set a cast. The halls were very quiet . . . A pin was heard to drop. I'll never scold a patient If the quiet ever stops. ' They never ever said a word While their ills we did repair, But this was understandable . . . They weren't even THERE!