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

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do solemnly swear by whatever I hold most sacred, that I will be loyal to the profession of Medicine and just and generous to its members. . . That I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor; that into whatsoever home I shall enter it shall be for the good of the sic and the well to the utmost of my power; and that I will hold myself aloof from wrong and from corruption and from the tempting of others to vice That I will exercise my art solely for the cure of my patients and the preven- tion of disease; and will give no drug nor perform any operation for a criminal purpose, and far less suggest such thing . . That whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fitting to be spoken abroad I shall {eep inviolably secret . . . These things I do promise, and in proportion that I am faithful to this Oath, may happiness and good repute be ever mine; the opposite it shall be fore- sworn. — HIPPOCRATES. SIX

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Bernard Fetter was born on January 21, 1921. After graduation from high school, he attended Johns Hopkins University, where he received an A.B. degree in 1941. He came to Duke University School of Medicine that year and received his M.D. degree in 1944. After graduation he was an intern in Surgery at Duke until June 1945, when he left to serve in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. From March 1947 through May 1948 he was a resident in Pathology at the V.A. Hospital in Fort Howard, Maryland. In May of 1948 Dr. Feter was hospitalized for tuberculosis, spending the next nineteen months convalescing from this illness. Certainly his illness had much to do with his later interest in the pa- thology of tuberculosis, ami his students can all testify to his generous, first-hand knowledge of the disease. After his recovery, Dr. Fetter returned to the V.A. Hospital at Fort Howard, Maryland, to complete another year of his residency in Pathology. In January of 1952, Dr. Fetter returned to his alma mater, Duke University, to become Assistant Resident and then Resident in Pathology under Dr. Wiley Forbus. In 1953 he was appointed Associate in Pathology at Duke, and in 1955 was made As- dstant Professor of Pathology. In 1959 Dr. Fetter was appointed Associate Professor of Pathology, the position which he holds at present. In his present capacity he handles a large portion of the surgical pathology cases for the hospital, but above all he teaches medical students and house staff. Dr. Fetter has done research on a number of disease processes ami has published articles on such varied conditions as tuberculous myocarditis, viral hepatitis, and cardiovascular syphilis. He is board certified by the American Board of Pathology and is a member of the American Association of Pathol- ogy and Bacteriology, the American Medical Associ- ation, and the College of American Pathologists. He is married and has four children. Perhaps most Duke medical students first en- countered Dr. Fetter on the Admissions Committee, of which he is a member. Many will remember his immediate moves to make the nervous applicant more at ease by discussing subjects of mutual in- terest. As a second year student, one found him to be ever ready and willing to stop and explain any- thing which might be confusing to the budding pathologist. He has a phenomenal ability to re- member names, and what student was not pleased to feel that someone really knew who he was. In school and outside, Dr. Fetter has become a friend as well as a teacher. And so, to Dr. Bernard F. Fetter pathologist, teacher, and friend, we dedicate the 1962 Duke Aesculapian. L With the student five

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Foreword What, after all, is education but a subtle, slowly-effected change, due to the action upon us of the Externals; of the written record of the great minds of all ages, of the beautiful and harmonious surroundings of nature and of the lives, good or ill, of our fellows — these alone educate us, these alone mould the developing minds. sir william osler A publication such as The Aesculapian represents something a little different to each person who reads it. To the undergraduate it signifies the passing of another year, putting him closer to a desired goal. To the senior it marks the end of one phase of his medical education and the beginning of another. To the faculty it records another year in the growth of the Duke University Medical Center. But to everyone it symbolizes another year ' s accretion to his pearl of knowledge. As with one photograph, this single volume attempts to pictorialize something of that dynamic, but ethereal, process of Education of which we have all been a part this past year.