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

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Norton Memorial Hospital Louisville, Ky. Medicine is a fertile field in which to demonstrate the vast chasm between book learning and its application to practi- cal problems. Iohn is an un- usual medical student: appar- ently, he knows everything-at any rate, he always has a logi- cal answer to the problems be- setting us. His medical knowl- edge is so beautifully and effect- ively organized that broad com- mon sense principles are never lost sight of, and only rarely are the finer details lost. A thorough foundation of facts and logic is what he carries to the realm of research and teaching. Molded into these profound concepts of medicine is a personality that is, to say the least, unique. His un- bridled enthusiasm at times provokes critical comment from classmates. The final arbiter of all student arguments, lohn has ably demonstrated the neces- sary ingredients for success. Fifty-eight John Abajian, J r Providence, R. I. L. I. U.

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By FRANK I. PBISCO produce a heat comparable to any hot Summer's day. Our medical training was in full bloom now, nourished, as it were, by the tears of the peritoneum for the dead that lay within the gall-stone tombs of the Biliary ways. T How will one ever forget- the electrician , the ghoul of life, Essner's Sotto-voce Soliloquies, House's sleep-pro- voking propensities, Eaton and his entourage, Ganders and his in-and-oddities. This was our last year of intimate contact with the college for henceforth our time was to be spent in the hospitals and clinics. It was our last chance to enjoy our daily associations as a group and who can say we did not make the most of the occasion. The union of Flower Hospital with the Fifth Avenue Hospital afforded us more than ample facilities for clinical iw' l 3 work. In toto, the Iunior year was a highly active, instructive and pleasur- able one, properly equipping us for our work in the Senior year. Then finally the Autumn of our medical training. Thought and action, word and deed until now have been two separate forms of consciousness. The great necessity now is that we act according to our thoughts, and think according to our acts. We have sufficient knowledge to enable us to meet the patient and his problem. We are able to gain some satisfaction in the thought that in some small way we are able to help him. The one sad note in the even tenor of our ways is that our college activities are on the wa:ne. We meet but once a week in a clannish gathering to keep alive the flickering glow of kinship which our three years together has built up, a kinship not only to our- selves as a group, but to our Alma Mater. Soon we shall be free of one an- other, we shall have shed our courses and our professors as the trees shed their leaves in the fall, and we shall bask in the Autumn glow of pleasant memories of friendships and incidents, of college and faculty. A few months, a final gathering of the clan amid pomp and splendor, a sheepskin, and our medical training will be a fait accompli . But while the academic influence of New York Medical College now gives place to the practical experience of interneships, there remain memories that will persist through the years. As we scatter to hospitals located in all parts of the country, the recollections of the four long years of hardship and kinship at school will serve to lighten the burdens of future work. The fear filled fresh- man days, the satiated sophomore days, the crowded junior days, and the leisurely senior days, all shall-to a certain extent-mellow the remaining years of our life. Frankly, we can hope, too, that the years to come-with the dignity and honor that we will in all likelihood acquire-will eliminate the petty mannerisms which we may have unconsciously demonstrated at school: such as, the noisy, undignified actions which Dr. Boyd so con- sistently objected to-without avail, the inability to act or to think independently of one's friends, and the all too fre- quent desire to unblushingly ingratiate ourselves into the good graces of our professors. A broader viewpoint of Medicine is needed, and we have been given the neces- sary inspiration and instruction. The Ethical Culture courses, which-to the unthinking-seemed unnecessary, should serve as a guide for all of our future activities. What appeared to be so alien to practical medicine was, in reality, the basis of the esteem with which the medical profession has always been considered. X Q Ein I.. Fifty-seven

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Brooklvn, N- Y- Colurnbia B. S. Lawrence J. Alvarez To some, fraternity spirit im- plies friendship only with one's brothers. However, Al was not of such a kind. He was everyone's friend-always will- ing to discuss amiably the var- ied perplexities which We en- countered. He has gone through school gaining strong friend- ships and enduring admiration. Always a conscientious student, the tedious regime of medical school never bothered him. Rath- er, he welcomed it, for he had realized early just what his ob- stacles would be when he cast the die and decided to study Medicine. Philosophically resigned to the fates, he resolutely entered into the spirit of the curriculum, and his success is partially account- ed for by that admirable esprit de corps . This, and his natural intelligence have served him Well. He starts his interneship with more than adequate knowl- edge, prepared to face with equanimity the responsibilities of a doctor. Prospect Heights Hospital Fifty-nine