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

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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

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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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WTO Be more like a review of anatomy but obstetrics lectures and a week of observation have made you feel like an expert. You only wish that you had taken psychological testing before you took the tests. You are glad to learn Osteopathic technique at last, but at first, your class- mates seemed to be more in need of adjustment after you finished practicing on them than to begin with. As the end of the second year nears, you fill with a mixture of panic and excitement. You will spend 5 weeks this summer under the supervision of clinical instructors. BUT, what do you say to a patient? lust how much stethescope tubing should protrude from your clinic jacket? How do you explain what Student Doctor or Extern means so it sounds like you know something? As your first O.B. patient advances, you may begin to hope she will be a month late, to give you a chance to read the book for the llth or 12th time. Then she calls you at 3 A.M. You rush to the hospital and before you know, you have delivered your first child. It all seemed unreal. Like your first kiss: after it's over, you don't remember much, but you do know you want to do it again. The beginning of the third year arrives. Afternoons in the clinic follow lectures all morning. You wonder in endocrinology, haematology, neurology, respiratory disease, and infectious disease, whether or not they now expect you to be treating white rats and why you hadn't studied this disease before that patient came in last week. As you study eye, ear, nose and throat, radiology, orthopedics and surgery, you wish for more time to read all the things you are excited to know. In psychotherapy you realize that there is hope for you after all. And in diet and nutrition you ponder just what the fibre content of English Walnuts has to do with the practice of Medicine. Ever growing is your anticipation of the 4th year with its rotating services in the hospitals and clinics. As you start on Medicine, you're suddenly aware that your dream is about to come true. You really will be a Doctor. You actually can apply some of your knowl- edge to human beings. The first day in surgery, you decide you may have to be carried out again, but you survive and even begin to cut sutures correctly. Perhaps you may even get to do a tonsillectomy or help with an appendect- omy. On clinic, you rotate through the different depart- ments. One day you want to be an EENT specialist, the next week a Gynecologist. But after 13 you are again content to be a G.P. Of course many of your classmates will be going on to residencies after their internships. As you leave for your 4 weeks at one of the state mental hospitals, you are sure that either they will keep you, or that you will be done away with by some violent patient. Next comes QB. service. Even after delivering 3 or 4 of your own patients in your junior year, your A Doctor The Surgical Suite heart still flutters each time you witness the miracle of the creation of life. You wonder if the mother could possibly be as thrilled at the sound of crying as you are while giving the helping slap to the little infant. Then the banquets begin. The organizations you had managed to find time for all gather to wish the future doctor well. Then graduation night arrives. Walking up to get your diploma, it may be a little hard to see, as you feel the firm handshake and hear, Congratulations, Doctor! A Achievement