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

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SURGICAL Thirty-eight 'IHE YEAR nineteen hundred thirty seven sees Flower Hospital forging to the lead in surgery .... The acquisition of the new Flower at Fifth Avenue and One Hundred Fifth Street . . . Formerly Fifth Avenue Hospital . . . . The adaptation of the vast facilities of Metropolitan Hospital to the needs of the students of the New York Medical College .... The enthusiasm of the students toward this new arrangement .... Students who are ordinarily blase toward all hospitals by the time they reach their senior year. The three surgical services at Flower .... The one headed by Dr. Fobes, our demanding professor, who urges us on to literary as well as surgical achievements via his much-discussed diary . . . That master instructor, Dr. Kaufman, heads the second service .... Sympa- thetic in our difficulties but determined that we learn surgery .... The acting head of the third service is Dr. Eaton, able successor to Dr. Crump, Sr ..... He, too, has introduced a type of diary into his service. Dr. Kellogg, wondering where the rest of the dry clinic section is .... We know they're making rounds with other men on the staff .... Dr. Wilson, supremely amused when he, together with Dr. Borrelli, discovers a senior group having difficulty in distinguishing an elbow from a knee on an X-ray plate .... Dr. von Bonnewitz lecturing on proctology .... All of which is virgin soil to most of us .... Dr. Lutton, surprised at the intelligent faces of the senior class .... Dr. Ney, assisted by Dr. Ganders, directs Dr. Brace four anaes- thetist par excellence! in photographing films of one of his far-famed cranioplasties .... Another noted sur- geon, Dr. Chilian, for whom we all have the profoundest respect. Flower undoubtedly boasts one of the busiest surgical services in the metropolitan area .... The staffs and the students are proud of this as well as they are proud of the efficiency and care with which patients are handled . . . . Dr. Bickley as one of the prime reasons for its efficiency .... Dr. Furniss, in his slow methodical way, 5.1 FOBES

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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

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d1SCOurSing on proper surgical technique .... A noted Specialist on hand infections, Dr. Herrlin, illustrates his lectures with his own sketches .... Dr. Smith tells a Senior group how much better versed in medical lore theY are as compared to other schools .... He dis- Covered this when examining applicants for interne- 511193 at Metropolitan . . . Dr. Crump, Ir. mixes anecdotes With instruction and thus commands complete attention - - - . Dr. Roane with his perennial smile gives bedside Instruction. We are a bit tardy in getting to the 'Met' and meet Dr. l-lerlitz at the Queensboro Bridge .... He agrees not to mark us late this time .... Dr. Genovese on the SUFQQTY of the thyroid .... Dr. Halberstam -discourses at great length and in great detail on tumors of the breast . . . Dr. Haynor, not nearly so awe-inspiring as three YQGYS Olqo, but just as emphatic and just as correct .... Dr. Sileo clearing up septicemia both for the patient Gnd the student .... Dr. Laus insisting that patients with ruptured ulcer should be given nothing by mouth, DOST-operatively, for at least forty-eight hours. We recall that unforgettable picture of Dr. Mayer deftly suturing a badly lacerated face .... He, with DF- O'Keefe, reminds us poignantly of a difficult junior Y?C1T .... Dr. Eckes and Dr. Goeller each welcoming discussion on their respective papers .... Dr. Salis- l3UTY, another of our well-known methodical workers, emphasizing detail .... An artist as well as surgeon, Dr. Rossby .... Drs. Ruggieri and Cantwell, with whom We continue a friendship born in freshman Anatomy . . . . Dr. Fierro, in his rapid-fire manner, regretting our uncanny ability to forget as much as we have forgotten, Dr. Fraser, the plastic surgeon, deploring the lack of facilities to permit our seeing actual cases .... We readily recollect pleasant associations with Dr. Bing- ham, orthopedist extraordinary .... D. Samworth, a pleasant soft-spoken man .... An exponent of home- Spun humor .... With Dr. Carleton's name is linked that odd examination in Urology we had as juniors Si, KAUFMAN EATON SERVICE V- 1 4. -li' Thirty-nine