Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences - Stethoscope Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Richard E. Eby. D.O.-President E RECOGNIZE the reduction of human suffering as a constant challenge in our changing world, while the privilege of sharing in its accomplishment remains a constant prayer. At Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery, our faculty and students are dedicated to serve society by promoting family health care through as comprehensive a training program as the four predoctoral years will permit. The osteopathic philosophy of health care explains that the art of applying scientific medical findings, from any source, presupposes a fundamental respect for the innate ability of the human creature to repair its remedial damages. This philosophy places the physician in his proper role as an assistant, rather than the inventor of healing processes. It requires a humble appraisal of all knowledge, rather than any politi- cally arrogant enunciation of limited or merely expedient therapies. It implies the transitory nature of human understanding, and accepts the need for imaginative inquiry and tolerant appreciation as new information is exposed and defined. We offer the predoctoral student an opportunity to prepare for the needed services involved in family health care. Our emphasis is upon a comprehensive curriculum as opposed to an initial goal of specialization. We believe that no physician should be denied the unique osteopathic contribution of studying and utilizing the inter-relationships of structure and function, so vital in the diagnosis and therapy of' disease. Therefore, a permeating concept of the whole man approach to health problems pervades the basic and clinical studies here. In this way, we broadly prepare our student doctors for roles as physicians and surg-eons. Each D.O. inherits a legacy of distinctive health service, and assumes a solemn stewardship of public trust and confidence. To these rewarding goals we are committed.

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6650 You Want-- OU want to contribute to humanity, relieve suffer- ing, and give comfort to the distressed. But perhaps there was no training for the family doctor nearby. So you decided to go a little further from home to a school in Kansas City you had heard about to get the orienta- tion toward the patient, not the disease. You expected hard work, midnight oil, but as the first day approaches, your excitement rises. You buy all of your books, .microscope, dissecting equipment, colored pencils and rubber gloves. You're determined to read ahead in all your books. Ten minutes later you are convinced you'll never make it past the first week. You put on your lab coat and pose before the mirror. Well, maybe you will. In gross anatomy, as writ-ers cramp sets in, you again begin to wonder. Then in the dissecting theatre, the sheet is thrown back. You feel your knees going. You can picture yourself being carried out. The guy beside you doesn't look well either-you feel better. The bell rings-lunch time. You slip off your gloves and wash your hands 8 times. Some relief descends during physiology lecture as you realize that the material will fit in with the anatomy of this morning. Histology seems so tedious, you feel you'd rather be back in public health. Bio-che.mistry is just more of the chemistry that you promised yourself you were through with after organic. Osteopathic principles are interesting, but you want technique rather than theory. Suddenly, 12 weeks have passed and you are ll weeks behind. You silently bless the administrations policy of no letter grades. Beginning the third quarter, you concede that you might make it. Some of the courses are even like you had imagined medical school to be. Physical diagnosis makes you feel ready for private practice, but your neighbors still haven't sufficient confidence. Between psychology and Cancer detec- tion, you diagnose that you have one week to live. It sometimes seems in embryology and physiology that they expect you to have a practice of frogs, rabbits and guinea pigs. All summer you dread the beginning of classes and entering into the legendary horror of pathology. When you get into the 7 weeks of living, breathing and sleeping pathology, you realize that it is as hard as you had heard. Years later you will be able to quote the text verbatim. At times, bacteriology seems more like a history class and you walk around with more stain on you than any slide ever saw. You are now sure you have caught the disease you were culturing this morning. In physical medicine the machines seem easy, but you hope you won't electrocute your first patient. Parasitology and tropical medicine make you begin to order your meat well done. Gynecology seems First-The Didactic Subjects A Complete Examination ls Indicated. Appreciation A Study In Lights