Medical College of Pennsylvania - Iatrian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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The Freshman Year is a beginning. Not only the beginning of a career in medicine, but the establishment of new relationships and the as- sumption of a new kind of respon- sibility, to one ' s self and to one ' s future patients. It is unlike any- thing you have ever known before. To each person entering the first year of medical school, the experi- ence will have a different meaning; the realization of a goal long sought; the challenge of the intel- lect; the opportunity for service. To all it will mean hard work, long hours of study, frustration, discov- ery, anxiety and a feeling of kin- ship with all those who have shared this experience. This first year is an introduction to the fundamentals of the science of medicine. The study of anatomy is to medi- cine as geography is to history; it describes the theater of events. For some, it is also the first encounter with death. For the physician, Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down. Biochemistry, a seemingly hope- less array of formulas, calculations, metabolic pathways. Although the intricacies may be elusive, a basic scientific approach and training in logical thinking are achieved.

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Eva Fernandez Fox, M.D., Chair- man, Department of Radiology, our advisor during the clinical years. Dr. Fox has achieved a gra- cious balance between dignity and informality in giving enthusiasti- cally of her exuberance, warmth and sympathetic support. Wherever the art of medicine is loved there is also love of human- ity, Hippocrates ' J 1 A J •

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Physiology is alive. For the first time one observes in the light of new understanding the living ani- mal. The principles of action and interaction which one learns are constant and applicable to the rele- vant organism, man. A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest, a no- vice beginning yet expt i nt of my- riads of st asons. Walt Whitman