Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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For, if a doctor's life may not be a divine vocation, then no life is a vocation, and nothing is divine. -Stephen Paget from Confessio Medici

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Anatomy Educators today recognize the true pulse of anatomy emanating from DBI. It is here that life at Jefferson begins-here in the sweltering heat of Philadelphia's slow ref treat from summer. Opening remarks def fine the strict decor of the student in class and the strictly high class or Bondian taste in offfcampus activities. Grand master of anatomy, Dr. Michaels, conducts firstfday calisthenics. Weeks later the students learn that this diversionary tactic reduces the morbidity of syncopal attacks to a minimum. With his rapid dissection techniques, Dr. Hausberger demonstrates that the hand is quicker than the eye. Somewhat skeptif cal, the smiling Dr. Parks can be found eyeing up anatomy in another part of lab. With an ear to the students' problems, Dr. Zitzlsperger says to give up girls for better grades. 'LThe most important part of the body, says Dr. Hutchinson-so many most important parts! As pressure builds, familiar remarks from students are heard:- My heart rate is exactly double my last grade. - Whats he talking about ifloating down thc inguinal canal on our backs? - You know that girl at the next table?-She's starting to look beautiful! Leaving Daniel Baugh Institute, its smell, the relics of 6 months' labor, is easy. Cnly later, gathered in The Big House, do we realize the foundation was made at our own 11th and Clinton Streets edifice.