Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Kenneth Sizer President Robert Robertson Vice-President S I I O IC CLASS OFFICERS Barbara DeHaven Set retai y- Treasurer Robert Osborne Historian kNE torrid dav early in September some four years ago, eighty-four sparkling specimens of humanity all answered ' ' Present Sir to the roll call and thus embarked on a course toward the distant, almost undiscernible M. D. Of necessity, apparently, there was to be considerable tough sledding. The translation of We don ' t know : This compound comes into the picture in a great big way ; Your microscope is dirty, into usable knowledge was at best almost impossible. The skewed cartoons offered the necessary relief. Then there were those super- visualizations punctuated by huh — ya see? By the end of that part of the trip all were expert at adjusting kymo- graphs but would have panicked at the thought of meeting a patient. The start of the next year occasioned a groan. Our worst fears seemed to have basis in fact when, We ' re having a hard and difficult quiz today acquired near theme s ong proportions. The memory schemes became impossible when it seemed that we would be required to remember that as Borsch t and Girst showed in their case in the Falkland Islands, the cantharidian beetle may be a vector of bagamushi fever. The daily, Will do RBC. CBS, second study of slides provided, almost approached the ridiculous. ' Scuse me, I didn ' t know there were women in the pool tonight, suggested that life isn ' t totallv tedious. The one mouse power engine in the Egyptian Building lecture hall air-conditioner remained inadequate throughout the year. The invitation to join Wuthering, Schmeideburg and myself back in the club car was appreciated. Eventually fibrinoid necrosis became a byword. The clinicians took over at that point. They foxed us by beginning with the common cold as the first of the infinite lecture series but ended with such as idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Each of these began with, Will you run the projector please. Doctor? A healthy transfusion of West Virginia blood brought our group to full strength at this point. Clinical medicine became an actuality, though we didn ' t know exactly where we fitted into the program. The 1 :()() A.M. call We have a patient who has been in the ER for three days, who we are admitting to medicine and who needs a stat CBC and urine — was at best puzzling. House staff rounds seened to consist primarily of, Put that on the student request sheet. Patient workups were ol necessitv sandwiched in between recreation and occupational therapy. The most startling change of all took place at this time when, as happened to two of us, an old man with prostatism called us Doctor for the first time, arousing in us both a tingling thrill and a silent, fearful acknowl- edgment of how little we knew. The four year anniversary of that torrid day in Septem- ber was begun on a hopeful note. Aside from the donning of the full white uniform, our first act was that of being fitted out with cap and gown — unbelievable. Lectures became fewer. Awe of the pit became and remained the central theme of conversation, being displaced only briefly by, But the Big Ten is just afraid to schedule West Virginia. The knowledge of procedures became import- ant: You ' ve contaminated yourself. Doctor ; But Dr. Hatten a placenta doesn ' t kick ; all senior stat students on surgery became extremely proficient at passing Levine tubes and suturing. All remember . . . the tonsils caressing each other in the midline ; Have the electrolytes been done on him today? Can ' t you hold the retractor a little higher — I know you ' re tired, but try ; Call Dr. Zimberg for me, please. Three cardinal dates became magic, yet each with its passage brought only a sigh of relief. The matching plan announcement date, the last final and commencement were our Shangri-La, reached only after an arduous but undeniably happy trip. ... As you know, we try to hold these meetings to the prescribed time. {29}

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DEDICATION Dr. Kinloch Nelson 1,, he Medical Class of 1956 respectfully dedicates this portion of the annual to Dr. Kinloch Nelson in grateful recogni- tion for his friendliness, advice, understanding, and inspiration in our Clinical Tears. {28}

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SENIORS IN CHARLES CHANDLER ASHBY Richmond, Virginia Thela Kappa Psi B.S., Medical College of Virginia Appointment: Mercy Hospiial Springfield, Ohio GERALD WESLEY ATKINSON Glade Spring, Virginia Phi Chi I.A., Lincoln Memorial University: Student Council, ' 52, ' 53; Baseball ' 54 Appointment: DePaul Hospital LEIGH OLIVER ATKINSON Roanoke, Virginia Theta Kappa Psi B.S., Roanoke College AOfwuitnitnt: DePaul Hospital Norfolk, Virginia THOMAS HERBERT BAIN Crozet, Virginia St. Benedict ' s College; Alpha Omega Alpha; President, Studen American Medical Association; President, I.aennec Society Appointment Bellevue Hospital, First Medical Division New York, New York i 30