Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ir o | | The Western Pennsylvania Hospital Temple University School of Medicine Clinical Campus Class of 2008 It is with great pleasure that I extend my congratulations to the 7th class of clinical campus students who have completed their entire third and fourth years of clinical training at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital. We also continue to enjoy having the main campus students join us for their required and elective rotations. The campus at West Penn Hospital continues to be one of Pittsburgh's leading teaching facilities and has attracted medical students from across the country. West Penn Hospital has earned an international reputation for excellence and innovation in the care of patients, education and research. In 2006. The Western Pennsylvania Hospital was awarded Magnet Recognition™ status from the American Nurses Crcdentialing Center (ANCC). the first hospital in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania to achieve this prestigious designation for excellence in nursing and patient care services. The ANCC is the nation's largest and foremost nursing crcdentialing organization and the 4-year Magnet designation is the highest level of recognition that the ANCC can extend to healthcare organizations. In 2007. The Western Pennsylvania Hospital was as named one of the country's 100 Top Hospitals for cardiovascular care, based on the results of the 2007 Cardiovascular Benchmark for Success Study. The study, commissioned by Thomson Healthcare (which last year acquired Solucient. LLC, and its longstanding Solucient 100 Top Hospitals program), examined the performance of nearly 1.000 U.S. hospitals in treating congestive heart failure and heart attacks. West Penn is one of 30 teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs named to the Top 100 list. Elliot B. Goldberg, M.D. Associate Dean I look forward to our continued affiliation with the Temple University School of Medicine and am pleased that West Penn can provide valuable educational experience for medical students. Sincerely, Elliot B. Goldberg. MD Associate Dean. Temple University School of Medicine 22 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

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To Be A Doctor... Ever since the day you first said those magic words, “I Want to be a doctor,” you have been wrapped in the colorful fabric of the history of medicine, a fabric woven from the ideals, wisdom, endeavors, and achievements of our glorious predecessors in medicine. The original meaning of the three words- physician, medic, doctor- that describe our profession is highly illuminating. The word physician derives from the Greek physis or nature, denoting that the physician has his roots in an understanding of the nature of the things; the word medic comes from mederi, to heal, and the root med means to meditate or think, so that medic is equivalent to thinker and healer; the word doctor originally meant master, instructor. Thus, semantically, our profession involves learning, knowledge, healing, and teaching. Five types of ethical duties must guide your life: duties to your teachers, to society, to your patients, to your colleagues, and to yourselves. You have duties to your teachers, because they, the parents of VOlir mind, are the most important people in your life next to your own parents. I do not mean only your university professors, but any physician from who you learn anything- his science, art, ethics, self-denial, or example- that may become a source of inspiration in your professional life. You must honor your masters with devotion and friendship, for friendship is mail’s noblest sentiment, greater even than love. Your duty to society is to be idealists, not hedonists: as physicians, to accept your profession as a service to mankind, not as a source of profit; as investigators, to seek the knowledge that will benefit your fellow beings; as clinicians, to alleviate pain and heal the sick; as teachers, to share and spread your knowledge and always because you are imbued with an ideal of service and not the ambition for gain. Thus will you maintain the dignity of our profession as a social science applied to the welfare of mankind. Your duty to your patients will be to act toward them as you would wish them to act toward you: With kindness, with courtesy, with honesty. You must learn when and howto withhold the truth from your patients if by not telling them all the facts of the case you can relieve or console them, for you can cure them sometimes, and you can give them relief often, but hope you can give them always. Remember that a laboratory report is not an irrevocable sentence. A hematological determination, a roentgenogram, an electroen-cephalophagram may supply vital information on the organic working of the body, but it is even more vital never to forget that, behind all such reports and data, there is a human being in pain and anguish, to whom you must offer something more than an antibiotic, an injection, or a surgical aid; you must, with your attitude, your words, and your actions, inspire confidence and faith and give understanding and consolation. To your colleagues, you have the obligations of civilized men sharing a great and noble task and fighting for a common cause in a great crusade. YOU belong to a team of gallant professionals of all races and eras, bound together across the ages and continents bv a glorious ideal. 24 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE