Indiana University School of Medicine - Caduceus Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Below: Joe Lohmuller assists Dr. James Madura. M.D. with a Koch Pouch procedure. Left: In contrast, surgery done at the City Hospital in 1905 was without masks and gloves using drop ether. As I look forward into the future I have a vision, and I see it so distinctly that I cannot but believe that it will come true. I see a great State with its many and varied medical institutions working in- dependently and. therefore, inefficiently. The an- gel of progress raps sharply the edge of my field of vision and I see these incoordinated institutions, like iron fillings, jump to the patterns of concentric circles with the State University as the center... Dr. Charles P. Emerson, former Dean of the Medi- cal School during an address in Bloomington on January 20. 1914, prophesized Indiana University Medical Center in its present functioning state. Much is occuring to change the face of medicine in Indiana and nationwide. Similar to medical technology, these changes have become explo- sive especially over the past four years. DRG's, HMO's and PPO's, unheard of four years ago now clutter medical news and conversations. Locally, major strides in renovation and construction de- velopments are taking place both at the medical center and adjacent campus.