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

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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

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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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Greetings to the 1969 Graduates of the Duke University School of Medicine: I envy you and wish that I could start studying medicine all over again, even though I realize that there is so much more to be learned than when I started in 1913. However, I enjoyed my sketchy and probably inadequate medical course. From 1913 to 1914, as a Rhodes Scholar, I took all of the subjects of the first three years at the Oxford Medical School in one year. It was even more condensed than the new Duke curriculum. I completed Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Bacteriology, and Junior Medicine and Surgery. In 1914, the First World War began, so I joined a French Hospital near Paris, starting as an orderly, and finally became an Anesthetist. In 1915, a typhus epidemic started in Jergo-Slavia CSerbiaJ so several of us volunteered. Later in 1915, all British medical students were ordered to return to medical school. As a neutral, I was requested to travel to England via Italy, Austria, and Germany to gather information for the British. The trip was interesting. On my return to Oxford, I became Sir William Osler's intern, and at night tested typhoid-Paratyphoid vaccines for the British and American Armies. In 1916, I was admitted to the Senior Class at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, but six months later, our country entered the War so I received my M.D. in April - and returned to France with the American Army for two years. I have been studying medicine ever since. Wilbur C. Davison James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics