Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - P and S Yearbook (New York, NY)

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P8zS. by any yardstick. is one of the world's leading schools of medicine. Although it ranks among the highest on such scales as size and scope. facilities. researc productivity and its support. the endowment of students. and the repute of faculty. its tradition of excel ence does not stem from bricks. mortar. decimal points or dollar signs. Rather. the secret of success of Columbia College of hysicians and Surgeons comes from emphasis on Who instead of What. its special emphasis wit regard to the personal qualities and attitudes of its learners and teachers in addition to their scholarly characteristics and their pursuit of knowledge and of truth. The future of P815 is another matter. Throughout the nation. fingers are being pointed and voices are being raised. directed especially at medical schools and their related hospitals. There are widespread concerns about iigustice and inequality. new challenges of professional authority. vociterous emands to provide the public with health care and access to it. and a clamor for more attention to be devoted to the prevention of disease. the maintenance of individual health. and to the obliteration of the poisons and evils which threaten the health of groups and of society. In the opinion of many. crisis is at hand already. a crisis in which you and we and P815 will be involved for some period to come. Matters will et worse before they get better. Manpower and means are stretched to the limit. the demands will imgose even more load. and no single solution will solve the problems. nce again the answer. if we are to move ahead. must come from the qualities and attitudes of people. of physicians. of you and of us. To plan imaginatively. to develop more professional and allied health personnel. to experiment in new forms of delivery of health services, and to participate as fully as possible while not overdiluting our primary objectives. these call for the same attributes which we have sought for this school and which have made it what it is. Only through your integrity and sense of responsibility. only through your continued recognition of the need to work together, and only through your awareness that service and learning and the acquisition of new knowledge are intertwined rather than separate can we come through on top. Loyalty. trust. and team play are not meaningless words. Mixed with concern, artistry. imagination, and a smile, they are essential for survival. Even after your graduation as full-fledged physicians. know that our interest and affection will continue. But know also that we will need your support and that we hope you will need ours as mutual advocates of the role of P8cS to medicine and o medicine to the nation's health. GEORGE A. PHRERA, NLD. Associate Deairi 21

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METAMORPHOSIS his chair stiff, the light dim. winter's wind chilling his skin his mind is full of people he cares that Pete and David have left he dreams of caressing a breast whose nipple will rise he is a lst year student he hears the cries of dogsfhe cracks the skulls of mice he hears the cries of catslhe scays the skull of man he sees woman's husband draw his last breath then practices needling his 2nd ICS he sees womanls husband sip his last drink then washes his liver in a path-lab sink he attends both funeralsg then he is wamed . . you must not get involved with your patientsw he stabs steel into veinsfinto bonesfinlo spine he tears of gauze scab from nerve-raw red wounds his chair stiff, the light dim, wir1ter's wind chilling his skin his mind is full of facts he cares about his internship he dreams of touching a breast and feeling no lumps he is a 4th year student E. G. Howe, III 23