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

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Medicine is a service profession. The doctor is educated and trained to give services to people. People have the right to make demands on the doctor. Sick people have the right to make irrational demands on the doctor. By the terms of the bond, the doctor will always spend a large part of his waking hours in professional activities. If he believes all professional activity is work, he will work a long day and develop a feeling of self-pity. If he believes the interplay between himself and his patients is as interesting and entertaining as a good play, an excellent novel or a game of tennis, he will have a hard time separating work from play, and he will wake up each morning with a feeling of zest for the adventures of the day. I have always been grateful that, in the summer of 1928, Emory University Medical School accepted Eugene Stead, Jr. as a freshman student. I know of no other career which could have brought me so many satisfactions. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medicine Former Chairman of Department of Medicine

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Many of you know that I believe you should achieve worthwhile happiness throughout your entire trip through education, including, of course, undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education and your continuing medical education throughout the remainder of your life. Don't delay happiness until the awarding of the doctorate or until you receive Board certification or until the establishment of your own practice. These should be memorable landmarks along your trip and should be celebrated. In addition, you should enjoy each day throughout your entire trip the pleasures of doing, of serving, of planning and of building. The happiness that should attend the doing of your multitudinous daily tasks of service will overshadow the pleasures you will receive through honors bestowed on you. Happiness is complex and there are undoubtedly many possible paths. One that l recommend involves the expenditure of the extra effort required to excel. Everyone enjoys most the games in which he excels. Likewise the extra expertice which you may acquire in your daily work will be paralleled by increased happiness during your work periods. lVlay I wish for all of you all possible happiness in your trip through medical education and your medical career. J. E. Markee lVl.D. Former Chairman, Department of Anatomy

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i If- 'Nx 'HHH Obstetrics and Gynecology Postgraduate Fellowship in a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Cincluding Gynecic Endocrinologyj can be stimulating and rewarding. The Specialty is not a mechanical specialty as some observers suggest. ln it will be found intellectual and scientific stimulation and knowledge.'Any department, which is fulfilling its obligation to the Fellows, must give to them a sound and excellent clinical experience for the care of the daughters of Eve, and must have excellent coverage of the Specialties within the Specialty. This will insure that the Fellows do have opportunities to accept the responsibilities of excellent clinical care of the patients and also the incentive to examine and consider the problems of basic and applied science which the patients present. The Fellows must learn that in no field of Medicine can, or will, they encompass all knowledge to bring them to the genius status. Each Fellow must accept the fact that postgraduate education is a continuous process of learning how to continue, through his entire life, the learning process and the ability to think. With this process of continuing to learn there will be a development of the Medical Conscience. The conscience, once developed will force him to clarify what we do not know or comprehend. Perhaps Socrates was correct, when as thought, he noted, t'The unexamined life is not worth living. Bayard Carter Professor Emeritus Former Chairman Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology