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

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Only the two-week Christmas vacation which followed could serve to restore the aplomb of the practicing senior medical student. With january came the cold wet winter known only to New Yorkers. Rheumatic fever weather with its ac- companying epidemics of U. R. I. had the boys hop- ping on Pediatrics and Medicine. Icy streets kept the Orthopedics and fracture services busy while something new was added in an epidemic of virus disease, which Leo Nolan promptly managed to contract. In january, Premier Tojo and other japanese war criminals were hanged. President Truman gave the nation the principal tenets of his new Fair Deal' 'program and on january 20th was inaugurated for his first elected term. Television, which had by then appeared in in- terne quarters and bar rooms all over the East, came fully into its own when the East-West cable to Cleve- land was opened. Milton Berle was quite the rage and it was realized that television in the parlor was a stronger deterrent to study than the children upstairs or the crap game down the hall. The weather turned so warm and mild after Ground Hog day that our thoughts heavily turned to National Boards which had been announced for April 25 and 26. Absenteeism began to increase as we realized that there was a helluva lot of exam worthy medicine that had slipped through our fingers during the junior year. How to start an i. v. and how to treat an upper res- piratory infection may be important skills to the clinical clerk but the National Board of Medical Examiners had been more interested in ill-defined abdominal masses, the pathogenesis of Kimmelstiel Wilson's Disease and descriptions of the Arnold Chiari Syndrome, according to the little blue books we bought from Miss Yohannen. The time for Cecil and Christian-Osler had passed and we offered up many a hosannah to the creator of our previously much maligned and ill-used set of combine notes. - St. Valentine's Day passed with barely a cardiac flut- ter. On Washington's Birthday, we cut clinics legiti- mately. With spring the detail men returned to the ever-fertile helds of Flower senior medical students to distribute samples and sell books. Cigarettes, antacids, salves, pastes and anti-histaminics were distributed with great abandon. The salesmen from Prior proved more irresistible than Betty Grable in a French bathing suit and even joe Linsk bought a copy of Tice. Bob Wolfe didn't. Miss Yohannan collected S515 for National Board fees, Dr. Slobody wanted a dollar for Willard Parker gowns and the front office was demanding six pounds of flesh for unpaid Fleur-O-Scope fees, all of which left everyone too broke to have much fun over Easter vacation, as if such would have been possible with National Boards looming so large on the horizon. We spent the time gathering our forces for the onslaught to COITIC a week after our return to school. The three-day hiatus of school between Easter vaca- tion and our study period was strictly a lost cause. With graduation from college and future licenses to practice at stake, three afternoons at the O. P. D. paled to in- signihcance. Suddenly we were face to face with the end of twenty years of formal education. An almost unbroken series of semesters and final exams stretched out behind us. Beyond the Boards was graduation. And so we came to the end of our days. Time had passed, we had passed, and next year we'd all be doc- tors. School had been a four-year period of conversion and reconversion. Our college had grown and prospered even as we watched fQueens and Morrisania became affiliatedj. We had entered school in a post war period and graduated into an era of atomic energy and im- pending national health legislation. The East-West .cg-5

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CARMEN CASTRO SAUREZ Box 176, Catano, Puerto Rico Municipal City Hospital, San Juan, Puerto Rico Alpha Epsilon Iota 2, 3, 4. Chestnut Hill College, Phila., B.S. JOSE F. SAUREZ Box 176, Catano, Puerto Rico Municipal City Hospital, San juan, Puerto Rico Phi Chi 1, 2, 3, 4. Columbia University JOSEPH VOYTEK 5605 Baring St., Philadelphia, Penna. Walter Reed General Hospital p schism had become an unbridgable chasm and the fu- ture was at best uncertain. But for all that we take with us the memory of Dr. Evans' skull cap, Dr. Hayner's Bull Durham, of nine o'clock lectures, the one o'clock Phi Chi 3, 4. Bucknell University