SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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, J ,I -ii fldjlff liljfflmig g ltd Uliiillffg ri. alltrgliiitn,nnrtnji-l To-, -, ,..,A. ,. C ot, . C. C . l the Toxemias of Pregnancyug with a review of the recent literatureg which was accepted as the best treatise. The plan which we inaugurated some l years ago of having the students review the year's histories with an investi- T gation of the recent literature on the subject has met with so much success that it has been copied and adopted at Cornell, Columbia and the University i . of Liverpool. j In the coming issue of the American journal of Surgery, David Beres j has contributed an article fedited by the Directorj on The Stillbirths for 1926, which merits the attention of all readers interested in this subject. Any study of case history is illuminating but more so when you have seen just such a case-furthermore, these studies show our deiiciences and they l are manyg usually sins of omission which show lack of data, errors in l diagnosis and need of final check up by necropsy Endings. Only by the com- . plete follow thru does a case become valuable. This year these defects are being correctedg flj by having all the histories of the department pass thru the Director's officeg the defects noted, supplied, and a report of the same i made to the Staff conferencesg Q21 by inaugurating a follow up clinic effici- ently manned. Unfortunately, the curriculum committee has seen Ht to cut down the length of the obstetric block to five weeks. Obstetrics is such an important subject dealing as it does with two livesg that the controlling power on i Medical School Curriculum should be made to see the necessity for more, not less, instruction in clinical obstetrics. At most, our graduates of Class-A medical schools receive less than one-tenth the training accorded the midwife in foreign countries-and the midwife after graduation is controlled by lawg . while the medical man with his inadequate training after he passes his State .i Board examination is controlled alone by his conscience. 1 The defects of our obstetric teaching explains the reason the United l States has a maternal mortality higher than any other civilized country except Chile, which is indeed a sad commentary on our medical schools and . our obstetric training. The only students who have benefited by the block I system are those who have been assigned to the Jewish and Greenpoint Hospitals. l' This year has been prolific in the contributions which the members of l our staff have made to medical literature. Almost every member from the intern to the head of the department has done his part with obstetrical or ll gynecological contributions. l The pathological conferences which were established two years ago for the review of the pathological material removed in the department, have 1 become more and more imzportant as a teaching medium each succeeding ,l vear. It is unfortunate that the students do not avail themselves of this j ll l I elective course. The staff attends almost to a man-and the men in the i T section would get a great benefit from attending these hours. l I cannot close the review of the year and its progress without voicing j my thanks to my co-workers who have been indefatigable in their energies, 1 conscientious and loyal in their support. l JOHN OSBORN POLAK l v gvdg , g,QT' ' ' -ig --at f - if-L 1'-f---+4---1.-ami I Page 'Twentythree 1

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7114 arf . A A ,,-.HMV -Ut at .,,. , ., 1. -r-'-- '-' N-e H' - - -1 .1 V. .. i.. ,- .. ,. .,. ,V ,A N, ' 'i'.a?T','i ,,,,t+ - ' - , -'itil'--,. , -is r - f ,tl-iii,-' 4 'li' Q'-f',,'ii2' '.-' Wifhl, ',i'i'lf'l, Lf pl 4 -X 15' nl' '! 'WU' it 2? ' 'N 'A-Ji 'F lifii T 4 ir .T -.tL,..'..-a,4.4-si-'--us.,up4l,s,1,- , - M ,ggi-gg 5i,,s,,,yi1 ,C-l.fI1.f-,im,:ltdp4l,,fa--q,M,,'i:Hu-' 9 J , g Q, 7 ,lg 5,1 f , l, ! i v f'rf1a-rffff-1-ft i -, fi szftrvff if irzzzltais i i , ., , i i :mu 1 ',:i',,1l i , JOHN C. CARDXVELL Professor of Physiology, Acting Professor of Plulrntacologgv Mil., New York University, 18883 Assistant in Physiological Laboratory, University of New York, 1888-18893 Fellow in Physiology, Clark University, 1889-18915 Instructor in Physiology, Harvard Medical School, 1891-1898, Assistant to the Chair of Nervous Diseases, Long Island College Hospital, 1893: Chief of Clinic for Nervous Diseases, Polhemus Clinic, 18935 Demonstrator in Physiology, Long Island College Hospital, 1899, Associate Director of Department of Physiology, Hoagland Laboratory. 13991 Instructor in Physiology, Long Island College Hospital, 1900, Lecturer in Physiology, Long Island College Hospital, 19053 Assistant Professor of Physiology, Long Island College Hospital, 1908, Adjunct Professor of Physiology, Long Island College Hospital, 1910, Associate Profcssonof Physiology and Pharmacology, Long Island College Hospital, 19131 Professor of Physiology, Long Island College Hospital. 1914. Contributions to the literature: The History of Physiology and the Development of American Physiology CM4-:dical Library and Historical Iournaljt The History of Physiology Clincyclopedia Ameri- 6311371 other papers dealing with Cerebellum, Nerve 'Mcchanism, etc, Lichonian-Dedicant, 1926. I: Page Tiueiityffoitr 1