New York University School of Medicine - Medical Yearbook (New York, NY)

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'Physician as God Pathology Write an exam . . . put a random number on the exam . . . take a blank sheet of paper . . . write the number on the paper and place it in an envelope . . . seal the envelope . . . sign the seal . . . take your exam, and give it to Gary . . . and give envelope to Department!! Brown out Free radicals. Hyperkeratosis, Acanthosis, and Palisading Epithelium. 8 a.m. Bucket of Organs. 'Physician as Angel . rl Departmental Memories W r'l , N' . liijlf Obstetrics and Gynecology gil + Chandelier Sign Back in the saddle again. . '13-H, F-2 Distressing Room ,gf l You finish the deliver-y, ' ' Pierre Cardin is having a sale.! , Give this lady V.l.P. -M! treatment. 214 Q And the score after 5, Apgar 7. 1 pgvl'-1 TW Clinical Psychiatry Impression: - Paranoid Schizophrenia: - Chronic Undifferentiated - Chronic Simple ll l1Pick onel - Hebephrenic I - Catatonic Dr. Angrist, can l borrow a carton of cigarettes? Pharmacology il-i111 . . . and then you sacrifice the dog!! inject norepinephrine, epinephrine, i l isoproterenol, propranolol, Phenoxybenzamlne, histamine, peanut butter and jelly, cytochrome P450 . . . cut the vagus and run. Genetics li Asparagus!!! lf-V1 Biochemistry I - nn' p uhhhhhhhhh H uhh . .. Bullet Bob or Captain Chemistry W-- Electron Transport Lectures !! According to my 24 hour urine creatinine, I weigh 412 pounds. Wahba v- 'El Surgery If 119. Give me the top 45 causes of paronychia . . . What's that? Why, that's number 15, , down by the chalk holder line . . . , la l want number 1. it Procedure of choice for . lu- is cannulation of the Thoracic Duct. V N Au Contraire Q' Surgery Cn-Call Room ' W Primary indication for a Iaparotomy is the presence of an abdomen. It When in doubt, cut it out. A By my calculation, this patient has burns covering 110'Zs of his body and ' 32'Zs of the man next to him. ' O I! St.

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A1 a check cashing service that was always either the doctors cafeteria It was the tunnel with ' .k,V' , T lx W - . . . .. . . . . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' - ' Pic i V iffy I - If if' S ' ' ' 1 - II ll ' Phi. wi Wim I wt Ct. Mui Sm Huuih lt. hmm i M N ll UH hu was a pin m It wash llells Ml 'fav Hi Uri 'li P395 N WEN lil hir Sllbllli mate dotwf ex2f!i00' 0' nawww gwghrers 0' iou.' ll rv wilhwl CW' gpg at earl' iw WZS 3 r9Ul0n0mla r INS Candi s 'W W' dlSllll' newnmm we 11 Wllele 3 Cafdioveg hem, Ir WHS closed or out of cash. Most vividly, though, Uni- versity was men washing and waxing every cor- ner of every floor, at every moment every day. Veterans Administration was somewhat less familiar. But whether it was during neurology or surgery clerkships, subinternships or fourth-year electives, nearly all of us had at one time or an- other walked through the swinging doors to be confronted on the way to the elevator by the President's photograph. VA was six elevators in a row going up when you wanted to go down. VA was the second floor canteen, the home of ter- rific discounts on shaving cream and shirts where cigarettes were 26 cents per pack. VA was the doctors and the many well patients eating together in the cafeteria, but it was also too many veterans in wheelchairs minus their limb tsl. VA was also where the depressing reality of chronic progressive neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis was brought home to us. VA was the odd child at NYU. lt was legally part of the medical center and struggling to become a full part, yet it remained an outpost geographi- cally and temperamentally. VA was a force which NYU somehow did not completely grasp. Bellevue. Above all there was Bellevue. Belle- vue was a city, a world, a universe unto itself. Each of us has a hundred stories about Bellevue, and we shall probably make up hundreds more after we leave. And all of them will be true. lf they didn't happen to us, they did for soon willy happen to others. Bellevue was our third year. Bellevue was quaint pages such as Anyone speaking Roumanian please report to the AES stat, and The F and C cars are out of service. Please use the I and K cars instead. It was the EW alive and bustling at 4:00 a.m. Bellevue was a continuous struggle trying to get free lunches in its collection of cats. It was the F-2 dressing of- fice. Bellevue was the male and female prison wards. Bellevue was Bel-Snack. It was IMCU that magic land where we sent many of our pa- tients and from where they periodically returned as they spiked minor temps. Bellevue was the Arturo's Pizza man bringing a pizza into the deli- very room during a delivery! It was finding the back stairs up to the 5th Floor Obstetrics wing and the Ob-Cyn offices. Bellevue was 4 o'cIock tea in the L-2 Surgery Library, and liver rounds in the A-1 Lounge. It was the Surgery on-call room. lt was being awakened at 5:00 a.m. after one hour of sleep by the phone ringing and being asked to come check a to keep open IV that had infiltrated. Bellevue was Saturday mornings with Dr. Farber. Bellevue was being second as- sistant in the O.R. It was trying to read urine sediments on the microscope in the A-1 student lab. Bellevue was Q.C.s, Q.T.s, and A.O.T.s. Bellevue was three chapels. It was the Well-Baby Clinic. lt was Central Chemistry, originators of the term QNS and Lab Accident. Bellevue was seven thousand telephone extensions. Belle- vue was the cirrhotic patient with tattoos over his entire body, including faith, hope, and char- ity on his genitals. It was the octogenarian woman with only one tooth speaking only Polish who came into the hospital because her hus- band was admitted and she had no other place to stay. Bellevue was all her patients, nearly all poor, many not speaking or understanding Eng- lish, most requiring medical care, and all need- ing understanding and help. Bellevue was our joking about these patients, frequently being condescending, but very happy when they thanked us in their own small ways and when they left healthier than when they arrived. Belle- vue was all these things, it was anything at all, and it was everything- to us. I .- , ... -.- 5 .1!-.. ., -- 1 I

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X I I L rl F 1 , , . .. - - ,- ,.-. ,-f,,-f.f. -J-- .. ... .. . A .-. - .+. wr.:-,,w- . . - -:. .., Anatomy and Histology Pediatrics Your Anatomy lab coat. perry ferry Prosection? Do you want to give an I.M., . .so called renorenorigament. boobie? fortuitous section. silirubin 5 laps around the Histo lab . . 16 year old girl with a'cardiac coach? murmur x 14 years. What would P.A.S. . . .Periodic Acid Schiff you do if she wanted to play . . . P for Periodic, A for Acid rugby? Would you operate? If she and S for Schiff . . .P.A.S. . . . wanted to play lacrosse, would Periodic Acid Schiff. you still operate? The investigating finger. Medicine What am I thinking? Infectious, Metabolic, Toxic, Traumatic . . . Routine 4 a.m. fever work up. Howto get from an E. coli UTI to non-pigmented Serratia septicemia in 4 days. The microscope in the A-1 lab! 2 for LFT's,1 for B8tL,1 for CBC1 for ESR.1 for Pro-time,1 for serology,1 for T4, . . .now what brought you to the Hospital? . . . I'm visiting!!l How do you think about Saturday morning conferences? Neuroanatomy Saran raps Microbiology I Parasitology you he lshei PILT Bug and worm flicks We Dracunculus they Treat Kwabs with Kwell. l am giving you these sheets gratis! Psychiatry McFaIlouts Fungi . . .diarrhea . . .and Roquefort The Black Box Cheese. HElGal'1Ol' Exam Number 2, question three. M.D. On October 16th, 1969, V2 of you did V2 What is affect? of the following experiment . . .What were the results of the other M? slowwwww viruses. 'Allegory of the Medical Profession U I Reproduced from Medicine 81 The Artist Mrs Medical by permission of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ' 1'-: f -1 '1N 3'!'.. , , . ,g, - I!! fgllllg F. e' ' ,ly Ntllllilz Al X , lflfgll llill' 'l.,.u'ff:i-L 6 :ag 1 1' 'I 'Physician as Man Physiology . f.,,4,,r. 1st BHA for this 62 year old squid axon CFR? Gamble grams? porceau en glace Frank-Starling is alive and well and living in Stony Brook. 'fPhysician as Devil 514-LSE!! 3-f2T:v . , ' ' - -- .- .- sci