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

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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!

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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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,sri Ill !l li lla ll ll Ill lil HHQEHE ure, BROOKLYN STATE HOSPITAL, owned and operated by the State of New York for the care of patients with mental illness, has a Cg1P21Ciiy of approximately 3,000 beds. Spending Saturday momings here while rotating through the psychia- try clerkship, Dr. Beckenstein and his staff demonstrated to Third Year followers of Freud a wide range of clinical syndromes. The JEWISH CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPI- TAL, with 775 beds, serves both the acute and chronically ill patient. With an excellent clinic dedicated solely to research and treatment of Tay-Sachls fand relatedl diseases, the CDH pro- vides us with a fascinating experience during Fourth Year Pediatrics. The hospital is also utilized for electives in medicine, neurology, and pathology. The BROOKLYN VETERANS ADMINIS- TRATION HOSPITAL was, for some, the first clinical experience with an outlying hospital, providing patient material for Physical Diagnosis. Later, its 1000 beds were to contribute to our leaming of medicine and surgery, and, in addition, offered several excellent electives. For some un- known reason, however, despite repeated requests, we were never able to secure Department approval to go there for OB. METHODIST HOSPITAL, a voluntary, church-related general hospital of 471 beds, only recently became affiliated with Downstate, and presently offers teaching programs in pediatrics and anesthesiology. It had been previously used for several electives in clinical subjects, and its clinical directors hold faculty rank.