New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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SIMONSON BENSON GRISWOLD IQHNSON PEDIATRICS I EARLY in our medical education we were made aware of the importance of a thorough knowledge of the branch of Pediatrics in the practice of Medicine . . . . Came the junior year and the subject was to be personified by a big man with a gruff voice and a very large sympathy for student problems-Dr. Simonson . . . . Until then we had known him only as the man who roared like a lion .... Now we were to personally meet this man and determine whether our fear of him tand we actually did fear hirni was based on fact. Lectures, lectures and more lectures-dispensed by Drs. Simonson, johnson and Essnere-were the order of the day for the first semester .... With the end of that period came our first opportunity to obtain clinical experience in the wards .... Shall we ever forget the greeting from an irrepressible four year-old as we were creeping up to him for our first physical exam .... Are youse doctors or are ya just learnin'? .... This exper- ience with countless similar ones served to ctcclimctte us to the embarrassments that every embryonic physi- cian is bound to endure. We, owe much to the many attending physicians among whom were Drs. Griswold, Benson, Chick, Bohrer, johnson and Essner .... Who made those clinical hours veritable fountains of wisdom .... Senior year brought us more experience at the bedside and, gratifyingly so, less humiliation at the hands of the precocious ones .... One of the highlights of that year was an interesting two-week period at Willard-Parker Hospital tquite a trek from Flowerl .... Where we actually saw cases of contagious disease .... Scarlet fever, diphtheria, chicken pox et al. became tangible things in place of a number of pages in Griffith and Mitchell .... Lastly, Infant Feeding and Dr. Griswold! . . . . Sufficient justice can never be given to the worth of this series of lectures--they were, to indulge in the vernacular, simply colossal . We shall look back many times, in the future, to our all too short experience with this department .... But always our reminiscences will be tinged with regret . . . . Illness deprived us of Dr. Simonson's presence and influence for the greater part of our last year .... A A Thirty-five

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if . fri, l Thirty-four COPE KLEINER COOMBS DOTTI PHYSIOLOGY BIO-CHEMISTRY PHYSIOLOGY, the science that treats of the function of organic beings .... And Biochemistry, the chemistry of the living tissues or life .... These are two of the most absorbing studies in the medical curri- culum .... Both subjects extend through portions of the freshman and sophomore years .... Dr. Otis Cope, peculiar professor and head of the department, is chiefly concerned with physiology .... Upon his shoulders rests the task of organization of the depart- ment, the apportionment of lecture hours among the different workers in the field, and the assignment of laboratory work .... All this in addition to his work on the Curriculum Committee and his research work . . . . A huge task for any man. Dr. Israel Kleiner is the professor of Physiological Chemistry .... So well organized and so well planned is his material that only a minimum of collateral read- ing is required for a complete understanding of the subject . . . His perennial smile mirrors his jovial nature . . . . Dr. Charles McDowell, professor emeritus of physi- ology, and one of the oldest men on the faculty, for years has instructed us in the art of living .... He is a man who truly has lived .... Dr. Helen Coombs, assist- ant professor of the department, shall be remembered for her attempted instructive teaching in laboratory technique and for her willingness to aid and foster individual and original experiments .... The founda- tion, perhaps, in some of us of future surgical technique . . . . And lastly, Dr. Abner Weisman, assistant in- structor .... He has since become a specialist in his field .... The Chemistry and Physiology of Internal Secretions .... He may frequently be found in the chemistry laboratory, checking and rechecking exper- iments, using students as his subjects and controls .... We are proud to feel we have been of service to such a man. Conscious of our loss, we leave the portals of the New York Medical College with reluctance .... Instruction per se has ceased .... We are thrown on our own resources .... Shall the seed sown by these members ot our faculty fall on barren ground? .... Or shall it, rather, find fertile soil, and blossom forth, disporting a knowledge to which all shall bow? .... Certainly opportunity is ours .... Let us not be found wanting.

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l BOYD SCHMA HL MacGAVACK THE DAWN of the senior year, September, 1936 .... The year toward which all had been pointing .... Some with fear for the future, others confident that the future would bring naught but honors ....' N ow, how- ever, some of the tension had decreased and we gayly set forth fo a year divided into Medicine, Surgery, Specialties, and Gynecology and Obstetrics .... Each with its own peculiar problems, each with its own staff of instructors. Our introduction to the senior year was in Medicine . . . . At last We would approach the bedside once more . . . . Not as in the junior year in a more or less hap- hazard manner .... But rather, as resolved during the summer: with definite objectives in mind, definite gues- tions, and, moreover, a resolve to do better work .... Thus we look back upon the men with whom we came in contact .... Each left his own imprint in our memor' ies .... Some eccentric, some verbose, some taciturn . . . . Others too reminiscent, and others of whom we did not see enough. Dr. Boyd, as distant from the student as ever .... Still talking above our heads .... Looking for student translators .... Searching for the eternal Periarteritis Nodosa .... And ever looking to Dr. MacGavack, a new acquisition to the staff from the wilds of California . . . . Who was a distinct surprise . . . . Instead of a middle-aged man we found a comparatively young man .... Willing to listen to student opinion .... A 'naster at differential diagnosis .... And above all a 'regular fellow .... Dr. Goldbloom with his R. B. C.'s . . Going so far as to give student lectures on the interpretation of the E. K. G. at his home .... We had to be early for Dr. White .... Prognosticating is his forte .... Dr. Dittler was faced with the task of giving Gastro-enterology in eight lectures, and made a good iob of it .... Dr. Libin, quiet, smooth-talking .... Our one regret is that we did not see more of him .... Dr. Baynor wanted an audience for each appearance .... Had to have his glass of orange juice .... We've al- ways wondered how Dr. Saccone could talk so rapidly and so long with one breath .... Where did he get his shirts? .... Dr. Bader batted for Dr. Goldbloom .... lust a vote of appreciation .... Dr. Weinberg, a thor- Thirty-six MEDICAL 'I' , 'N-