Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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interest in clinical observation and of teaching him how to get other people to work. It was from his last chief, Doctor Soma Weiss, that he benefited the most because in Doctor Stead's words The clay was worked better and more ready for the molding. He found that repeated efforts to explain to the undergraduate student the basic mechanisms of health and disease . . . kept before us the extent of our own ignorance .... 1 have never ceased to drink from this well of undergraduate naivete and skepti- cism : that the goal of the medical student was the opportunity for the correlation and consolidation of his knowledge which can only be achieved in the fourth year. and lastly that men with sound clini- cal training who have spent time in learning the ways of sick patients could hold their own in the re- search field. The story of Dr. Ernst Peschel's emergence as a member of the senior staff at Duke Hospital is more adaptable to a movie scenario than to a biographical sketch in a medical school yearbook. His gregarious and affable approach to the student, his modesty and his almost palpable desire to teach camouflage his past and his unique path to his present position. Dr. Peschel was born in 1901 in a small town in the middle section of Germany. ln his early life. he displayed a talent in music, and by his adolescent years he was an accomplished cellist. Through his artistry of the cello he soon became a member of several well known chamber music groups, and it ap- peared that he was destined to be a professional musician. But his interests also extended to medicine, and in 1926 he entered the medical school at the University Hospital in Berlin. During his years as a student and house oliicer in Berlin, he became acquainted with Dr. Walter Kempner, a relationship that was to prove instrumental in his coming to Duke. Upon completing his training in 1933. Dr. Peschel entered private practice as an internist in Ber- lin. But he soon found himself enmeshed in the web of intrigue which developed with the rise of Adolph Hitler and his secret police. Being one of a group of individuals who harbored the Jews and other political refugees from the Gestapo, he soon found himself being interrogated by the police, and on one occasion was questioned with a pistol held to his head. By 1943 his record was so questionable by SS standards that he was banished from Berlin and sent to Bavaria where he could be kept under closer scrutiny. However, with the permission of a disillusioned and sympathetic Nazi otlicial. he was allowed to resume his medical activities, and following the termination of the war, he continued medical practice in Nuremburg, Germany. Although Dr. Peschel enjoyed practice. he still yearned for an academic atmosphere. and when the Duke Medical School in 1947 extended an invitation to join its staff, he accepted. Since his ar- rival his interests have centered in the fields of electrolytes. renal physiology and vascular disease, Dr. Peschel's enthusiasm and elfervescence in these areas and in medical education have been a constant source of inspiration and motivation to all students who have been fortunate enough to come under his tutelage. No biography of Mr, Dr. Peschel would be complete without mention of his gracious and charm- ing wife, Mrs Dr. Peschel, whom he met and married while they were both at the University of Ber- lin. Ruth Lohman Peschel was an instructor and Associate Professor of Medicine there, and was well known for her research in the physiology of inllamation and also in cancer metabolism. Since her arriv- al at Duke with her husband, she has been associated with Dr. Kempner, and together with her hus- band has contributed much on the metabolic alterations associated with the Rice Diet. more I2

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