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

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PaulElinson, D.O. ' Death doesn ' t end a relationship . . t-q CO is SB it just changes it. James Sheetz, D.O.

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o E-m Synapsis, 1981, is dedicated to those who have gone before; given of themselves when others wanted so much to take, and who real- ized that Doctor, also means teacher. Henry Forman, Ph.D Laurence D ' Antonio, D.O. Ph.D. Mary Jane Showers, Ph.D. Walter Baker, Ph.D. Eugene Lentini, Ph.D. William Walters, D.O. Dominic Pisano, D.O. Eugene Wyszynski, D.O.

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The student starts as a practitioner, as an observer of disordered machines, with the structure and orderly functions of which he is perfectly familiar. Teach him how to observe, give him plenty of facts to observe, and the lessons will come out of the facts themselves. Each case has its lesson — a lesson that may be, but is not always, learnt, for clinical wisdom is not the equivalent of experience. The whole art of medicine is in observation; but to educate the eye to see, the ear to hear and the finger to feel takes time. And to start a man on the right path is all that we can do. Variability is the law of life. As no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. This is the fundamental difficulty in the education of the physician, and one which he may never grasp, or he takes it so tenderly that it hurts, instead of boldly accepting the axiom of Bishop Butler, more true of medicine than of any other profession: ' Probability is the guide of life. ' With thanks to Sir William Osier, M. D., 1900