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

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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-

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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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SERVICE ORNSTEIN WHITE HILL ough analyst of the x-ray plate, finally discovering something of which Dr. Boyd knew nothing .... Dr. Lintz on two successive weeks discussed both our cases .... His conclusions diametrically opposed to ours both times .... Dr. Piccioni, very serious and somber in appearance .... An expert diagnostician of cardiac disease .... Dr. Hailey, quiet and self-effacing . . . . Ardent homeopath . . . . With Dr. Goldstein every case came under one of two categories .... Hyper- or hypo-thyroid, or neurosis .... Dr. Olmstead-idoesn't the man get tired of making pin pricks? .... Dr. Terra- nova --we'll give this one some triple bromides . . . . A first morning speech gave us the wrong slant on Dr. Nussbaum .... We now know otherwise .... Dr. Werblow-sfirst impression: opisthotonus or deugue. And so, to the West Pavillion and Dr. Ornstein .... An excellent teacher, a fine gentleman .... Always looking for just a little bit of horse sense .... The eternal surgeon, Dr. Coryllos, at odds with Dr. Ornstein . . . . He helped enliven the Wednesday afternoon T. B. Conference .... Dr. Reiss, following in Dr. Ornstein's footsteps .... Dr.-Welkin-d, always ready to discuss the finer points of respiration .... Dr. Gordon, letting us describe our physical findings .... Dr. Scanlan, whose offer of fluoroscopy was never refused by the students. Dr. Leinoff forever begins a discourse, In this particu- lar case---- .... Dr. Slocum and his verbosity .... Dr. Rapfogel, patiently explaining cases .... Dr. Kraemer's promise that there would definitely be a gastric analy- sis the next time tif the patient appeared? .... Dr. McGrattan, as big as ever .... At the 88th Street Clinic . . . . One patient fastidiously refusing to partake of the test meal crackers on the ground that they were too stale .... The technique of passing a gastric tube as explained by Dr. Barowsky. So ended another period, another milestone, a step further toward our goal .... Time spent advantageous- ly in study at the bedside, at home, in the library .... Storing facts and knowledge and experience to be used at some future date .... And the crushing realization that there are still vast fields which we, in our ignor- ance, have not touched. Thirty-seven