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Preface As junior clerks on medicine we once took care of a dead man whos heart and lungs remained functioning. One afternoon we were told t change the man's Foley catheter and this was how we discovered tha the man's wife visited him every day. She grabbed us as we prepared t abandon the patient, his hardened prostate proof against our fresh Foley She began to show us photographs. Here he is, she said, just si months ago at the family reunion. The dead man was alive in th photo, smiling, a cigarette in one hand, a grandchild under one arm The woman kept us in her grip and showed us many photographs al more or less the same. Susan Sontag has written that All photographs are memento mori To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortalit . . . and that . . . photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Th CLINIC 79 contains over four hundred witnesses to time's relentles melt. These photos capture the class of 79's four year affair with jeffer son, now over forever, and the spirit of jefferson Medical School in th
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second half ofthe 1970's. But the CLINIC 79 is notjust a memento mori. Our desire was to effect what Sontag calls the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise. We wished to create, the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads - as an anthology of images. We have abandoned, however, the encyclopedic approach. Our intent was to include the best pictures, not more photographs. Finally we have included some written material from students, quotes from the note service, and pieces of interviews with jeffersonians. All of this in the hope that we do not end up with a dead man whose heart and lungs are still functioning. Doctors have been known to fail before. Even so, CLINIC 79 will add another dimension to the memories our readers carry with them - an anthology of images holding jefferson. Steven B. Cherry Robert Huyett Coblentz Kim U. Kahng February 5, 1979
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