Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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MEDICAL PROGRESS CURRICULUM AND FACULTY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE R.L. FULLER, D.O., R.A. MILLER, D.O., J.W. SILLAMAN, D.O., AND J.M. BRUNNER, D.O. Anatomy GROSS ANATOMY DIDACTIC 216 HOURS LABORATORY 324 HOURS TOTAL 520 HOURS MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY DIDACTIC 144 HOURS LABORATORY 72 HOURS TOTAL 216 HOURS

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floor — Disease and Death. And suddenly we learn what our supposed teachers never brought themselves to tell us. that we really have no answers, and that Death and Disease are the ultimate winners, and that our job is only to prolong; the game; to make the dance so enjo able that we forget our aching feet or swollen ankles or the gasping ith which we draw our every breath. And what do we sa to those who come to us like Pinoc- chio to the Blue Fairy for the gift of life, itself ' : ' What do we sav to those who see their doctors, still, as an occult cult capable of curing all sickness? And what pill do you take for the ache inside you — the ache that your medicine cannot diagnose and cannot treat ' ? ' An if vou dare, vou search out some one honest human being and vou tell him about the ache — the ache your professors of cardiology and rheumatology never told you anything about — and if he understands you, he looks at you and sad- 1 shakes head, and still more sadly smiles, You ' re be- ginning to become a doctor. You will have that ache inside you for the rest of your days. It will never go away. But it ill not always hurt vou so. And you v alk away, and trv to find a quiet corner you can crawl into, and the corner isolat- ed and quiet gives no solace. And you find there is no place to hide yourself away, and the ache is too deep, and you do not know how to nurse it, and you have not learned to live with it, and do not want to. And you seek our your old teach- er and friends, and there is nothing he can answer to your accusing look — Wh - am I hurting like this ' ? ' V ' hy didn t you tell me ' ? Why don ' t you sa ' something? And if he answers you — then it is out of a lifetime of frus- tration and defeat — What am I to say to you? A hair of the dog that bit you. Go back to your patients. There are too many sick people. I tried to teach you — now go learn.

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Gopi Ghosh, M Sc