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

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Forty if X i SAFFORD AYRES TRITSCH 'THE professor and head of the department is Dr. Safford .... For two 'years his deep booming voice has endeavored to find its way thru our cranial walls .... Finally, we believe, with success .... Memory must indeed suffer a severe breakdown before we would forget smiling Dr. Ayers .... Even though there was no attendance taken, his classes were invariably one hundred percent attended .... A real tribute to a real man .... We waited until our senior year to rneet,Dr. Loizeaux, clinical professor of this department ,... He conducted us thru the pitfalls of gynecological surgery .... In their younger days Cas boys? both Dr. Tritsch and Dr. Salzman must have been the bullies of their respective neighborhoods. We spent two very pleasant weeks with Dr. Yerbury this year at the 88th Street Clinic .... The pathology of Gynecology was ably presented by Dr. Silberblatt .... We were particularly impressed with his interest in our class . . . . Dr. Rossby gave us a series of lectures on anatomical landmarks . . . . It was Dr. Knapp who forced us to read DeLee's Obstetrics again in our senior year .... The informal chats with Drs. DiLorenzo and Hermes are but a few of the many pleasant recollections of this service .... On Drs. Hubner and Mussio we depended for some of our purely didactic work. And then the fourteen harrowing days of Obs at the Met or Flower .... Constantly waiting for babies that took a terribly long time to come .... The exasperations of estimating the Wrong date of labor, the incorrect diagnosis of position, the self delivery of babies-always in the early hours of the morn, the numerous multips in the week of observation replaced by primips in the week of delivery .... Dr. Behm, resident .... Always calm, cool, and collected . . . . A keen sense of humor but a slightly sarcastic method of teaching . . . . Respected by all, and loved by his patients .... Dr. Shapiro, assistant resi- dent .... Who should have been a teacher instead of a doctor .... Hours of his teaching finally taught us some practical Obstetrics .... Dr. Viola, a darn competent resident, Who does not receive his due credit simply because of his taciturnity .... Finally, scallions to those internes who greedily believed that delivering rnultips was practicing obstetrics .... They learned nothing, but delayed our obtaining the necessary six cases. ,3 S X xx' A ,sb GYNECOLOGY OBSTETRIC -.r

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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

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ORTHOPEDICS ACTURES BINGHAM w1LsoN SAMWORTH THE science of Orthopedics and Fractures holds an extremely important , position in the profession of modern Medicine .... Related as it is to the skeletal framework of our bodies, it is as important to our well-being as an architect is to the construction of a modern engineering project .... The orthopedist, however, is mainly concerned with reconstruction and, in the last analysis, proper function .... The original architect in the case of human beings is a supernatural personage. The intricacies of bone and joint disease were ably and intimately pre- sented to the class of 1937 .... Our debt to the members of this department is a special one of three years standing .... It claims its specificity through the dual effect exerted by the members of the department on the student- that of the much publicized scholar and gentleman. As juniors, We received a series of lectures from Drs. Bingham and Wilson which bankrupt description .... The latter discoursing on Fractures, the former on Orthopedics .... Both were brilliant .... Dr. Bingham, replete with easy grace, affability and eruditeness .... Dr. Wilson, with characteristic straight-forwardness, simplicity and completeness .... It was no wonder, then, that we came to the Met in our senior year for those two Weeks on Orthopedics with mixed feelings .... A sense of confidence in having learned the fundamentals .... And an uneasiness concerning the veracity of the kind words of Dr. Bingham that We rather knew our stuff .... Our fears were groundless .... Through a very Well organized service We re- ceived valuable practical instruction from Dr. Himmelstein, the resident ..., From Dr. Cantwell, pleasantly disposed and photographically obsessed-his interests wide and varied .... From Dr. Schonfeld, of Kings County Schon- felds, expert in Orthopedic Surgery, S. M. U. football and loud socks .... From Dr. Wilson, of the Russell-Traction Wilsons, who cleared many problems for us by X-ray discussions and while on rounds ..., And, finally, from Dr, Bingham, who, by his evident stamp of a gentleman and his established ability as an orthopedist, made the entire service, in general, and those Friday afternoon conferences, in particular, a pleasure as well as a beneficence. Forty-one