SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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4 Probing a painted skull • • . Complications of an M.I. . . . Cows ' milk is for calves . . . The student is on surgery to learn . . . Patients with post-pump psy- choses . . . Five things to remember out of our vast experience of medical school. Five out of hundreds of thousands — why remember these? It seems they each came to us via a face and mind eager to teach — from five people who taught well, and beyond academics, taught us how patients think, respond, and cope; how medical students and physicians do the same; how mistakes often precede our achievements; how to laugh and how to show frustration; and how, at the end of it all, to feel somehow accomplished. The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a be- ginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. — Sir William Osier And so with our feeling of accomplishment comes our heartfelt appreciation. We thank you. Dr. Benzo, for that extra and more insightful peek into our cadavers, and for easing those unknown bur- dens of freshman year; Dr. Cook, for weaving psychiatry with medicine and medicine with psychiatry and people with people and everything with a smile; Dr. Klumann, for stressing learning over labor and mak- ing us feel that someone did understand how a tired- eyed third-year student felt propped over a retractor; Dr. Oski, for Wednesday conferences on nutrition, death and dying, and such untaught subjects, and a Chairman ' s door that was always open; Dr. Rohner, for that amazing body of information you transmitted to us which we shall never forget and for ever know as Rohnerisms. TO YOU FIVE TEACHERS, for becoming to us all you are capable of being, for helping us to better understand the world of medicine and for taking a genuine inter- est in us as individuals, the Class of 1975, with our gratitude and affection, dedicates this yearbook to you. (

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, lOls )ISPENSER ...AND PROGRESS?! 1 ' k stitk- in a healthy condhinn. Excerpt from The People ' s Common Sense Medical Adviser, by R.V. Pierce, M.D., 1935, Buffalo. Sponsored by the Department of Anesthesiology ' IVsticIc u;i--!c«I liv M i '

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Charisma in a teacher is not a mystery or nimbus of personality, but radiant exemplification to which the student contributes a correspondingly radiant hunger for becoming. ,,,.,,. . .,, — William Arrowsmith 45 4