Louisiana State University Shreveport Medical School - Pulse Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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Fi s. 7' ,AN X s 5 'ff L sa X You will discover that while the patient wants the best and most modern treatment available, he is also badly in need of the old-fashioned friend that a doctor has always personified and which you must continue to be. Dr. G. Gundersen, Past President, AMA Introduction 0 5

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The Learning Experience - A Step Forward Fear, apprehension, anguish, trepidation. Are these the feelings of a patient anxiously awaiting his first encounter with a doctor? Perhaps. But they are also the feelings of a student doctor preceeding his encounter with his first patient. lt is definitely a mutual dread. But once a medical student musters up enough courage to open the examining room door and step through, the wor- ry begins to wane. Once he begins taking the history, and the patient's complaints and symp- toms loosen a few cobwelos from Pathology or Medicine or Physiology, the anxiety rapidly abates. The confused, unorganized facts from the preclinical years start to gel in the student's mind. He may actually surprise himself as he makes the diagnosis. lt is all part of the learning experience. The transition from preclinical to clini- cal medicine is a difficult one, but it is a step forward. fl ,,-2.7! gadsigisinif r - -4 .sf X V W, ' -. -J Eh .iriv- 4 Introduction

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Ethics - An Obligation WhoT does iT meon To prooTioe medicine eThiool- ly? IT meons giving in To inTerminobIy long hours when poTienT welfore is oT sToke. IT meons sub- miTTing To volumes of endless, Teoious poper- work, knowing ThoT ooouroTe record-keeping is clinioolly viTol. IT meons being shorply, compul- sively observonT of every poTienT every doy. IT meons hisTories ond physicols ThoT ore oorefully done, oompleTeIy compleTe. IT meons Toking The pooresT, soddesT, mosT hopeless ond clisoourog- ing poTienT ond giving ThoT person, os well os oThers, one's obsoluTe besT. One connoT do oll of These Things wiThouT on inTrinsic goodness, o lov- ing heorT, ond on obioing respecT for The digniTy of simply being humon. , , , i 4 Y 1i -i 6 lnfroducllon lp