Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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After fifteen or more years of being talked to, at, around, and asleep, the student enters the world of clinical medicine and does a little talking on his own. XYhat thoughts run through the heads of those lirst patients of his while he advises, would be very interesting and perhaps enlighten- ing, but they probably never will be known. He moves in an en- viromnent of white linen and silvery instruments, in which it requires many reams of vari- colored paper to move a patient a few feet. He takes for granted diagnostic aids which would cause the sophisticated Hippocrates' eyes to stare in child-like wonder- ment. He tries to stav on the trail amid a confusing abundance of signs, symptoms, and carloads of red herring. Gr he labors fruit- lesslv to elicit something which ,-as g1iifhs13'i1g'faPatli1:st112 'i11is?1iW5S?i?F that 'meiiiciimijis iaff as W61I 24S12 ,i5aier'1QifgileE5isS ellavdsfiffilili Whlilii,:55fif?9fg452E??ll:?5g?056 and ' . i 573934 t akin to Etlfiatf' s Cliangss-rwienfeelmg ofiaiifegjgiidffjustly so. For acute Qbsefvafigiifir is jstiii as much cornersttiiiehii good. inecliciiiejto- day as,5i55?iita5'tii1,- Sir t A1Tl1:l1fi-C onan DGy1C3S1E12ii3CifiQdg-. P23114 there rlneveif liasflaeerifdeifeltipeldfia' more iinpoiii iiiiigitgf3i:ifgQg1iiiiQ1i'5Qfifi13sti'tiiiieiitl cthgtii i' ,arid Sensei If bel 11:35 iztbseirlaedf- these facts tfand our humble -opinion its that there should 'be' some peripatetic pro- fessor' whose sole function it is to keep tlieir-sigiiificance constantly before his eyesi., then the section which follows is doubly rneaning- ful, Tliiesei scenes are from the various 'clinics which the student attends during his last year at Hzilmeniruinz they represent the finishing-school stage in the train- ing of physicians of this genera- tion. I dressed him, and God healed him. --Ambroise Para, 1536. Aff, THE

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Life is short, and the Art long: the occasion fleeting: experience fail- lacious. and judgment difiicuIt. -Hippocrates-.-1phorisms. direction of Drs. .lzmtiiii :tml l.tiptiiii, llr. ililllltlll. living i't-twiiwl slit-:tlts thi' itwlt. Yfiiiiig, stggiw-ssivt-, quiz llllliltxl' XYllllUlll pccr, pix-st-titvtl at suit-iititlit' lhi lfitch liccaiiiit- mliiwvtfii' ul' int'1lit':tl cflttcutirm in zipproucli to tlic lDilllt'lll. Quiet. trictltllx' Ili: l.uptt+ii l'llN. llcwt with itlllluwt lllwllfllllilllllillilt' rlifitictil- patiently zipplictl the lillltbl'1llUl't to pzttiriits. tiztstiwie tics. ln- hats sticcct'tlt-tl in zulmirztlily iiici'c:i-iiig tht: cntcrology, at most importzuit lirztilcli ot' im-tliciiic, cliiiicnl tzicilitit-s. lliiring this trzuisiuoii pt-riowl, XVIlSlllltlCI'Illt'bll1lt'l'YlrlHllill- llr. l'flwi'li:ti'tl, tzuiiotis sttitlt-ills must lit' imticiit :mtl :twnit tht- cxpcctt-rl for llis tliets. Nctirtiltigy wats tatttglit lw the liig cliztiigcs which tiftcii Ctilllt' ztliotit x't't'v slowly. tlirce, Drs. Stciiiliillit-ig llatiitl :intl l i'ignitti. .Xt .-Xllcntowii State llwliitztl, lhx lltilhiiztii :mtl his XXI- :irc coiilitlt-tit that tht- lit-p:u'tiiit-tit of Klccli- nssocizttes coiultictctl .iii iiitciisivc t-tiiii-,y in psy- cinc will :ittriiii :t new place in meflicztl eclticzttion. Cliiutry. 'l'lic .Xnicrictis llotcl will loiig rciiieiiihci' Sturlcnts :irc lu-ciily ztwztrc of the importzmcc of our class. towels :mtl ztll. lloiiicopzttliy was criti- exti':t-ct11'i'ict1lztr purstiits. lfor this reason the cally evztlttzltctl hy the class :ts it listciiccl to Ur. Xvillifllll Usler Society. l,:mc Kit-tliczil Society :mtl llocrickc, Klztny gi high putt-my mzm with llltllCZlil'tl lYl1flL'l'g'l'Iltl1lIltt' Society for reseztrcli :mtl clinical remedies were crczitctl. lir. XYclls wus chief of the im'estig'z1tioii are vziltizihlc ztifls to those intcrcstefl Division of Nlctliciiic tluriiig our jtmim' year. liis iii iiitcrnztl meflicine. I , 5 K X. V 3 Q 3 Q S tw X X s x X ,. S X , gk Qt 5 X Q, 5 XQN xl Nxt. i mtl if 99 x I abhor fear! There should be no fear in medical school. X -Otto Janton.

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