Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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(§ttr iban’B Mvbbag? S VOl graduate, you arc entering a world which is changing more rapidly than ever before. You stand on the threshold of momentous reforms, social and economical. One of the most insistent demands on medicine today, is for more reasonable costs to the great group of people between wealth and poverty. The most popular answer to this seems to be in the direction of State Medicine, or some similar plan. If the profession fails to originate a solution of the problem, some such plan will be forced upon us. Therefore, you inherit with your coveted diploma, a responsibility to make medical costs more reasonable—to emphasize the humanity of medicine as was so gloriously done by Sir William Osier—and to relegate to its proper subordinate place, the selfish attitude of personal aggrandizement. If this fails to avert State Medicine, then let us anticipate the change, retaining our leadership, and keeping for the profession all possible dignity and individuality, so that we may not lose the exalted position built up for us by our famous predecessors in the “healing art.” To the Members of the Class of 19 !2: Dean

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Htngrapifij nf Sir. parkiuBOtt ' H OCTOR PARKINSON was born in Philadelphia) September 17, 1886. He was educated in the Philadelphia Schools, and after further preparation was entered as a student in Temple I ni-versitv Medical School, from which he graduated in 1911. He served as interne at the Montgomery General Hospital at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and after being licensed to practice, located in West Philadelphia, where he built up a large practice. During the five years following his beginning practice, he was attached to the Joseph Price Memorial Hospital as an assistant surgeon. At the same time he served as quiz-master in surgical anatomy at his Alma Mater. 'Pile call for service in the World War saw him assigned to the 28th Division during the entire enlistment of the “Iron Division,” being mustered out at the close of the war as a Major in the Medical Corps. He again entered practice and served as a member of the visiting staff of the Montgomery General Hospital, surgical division, for a number of years. In 1921 he became Associate Dean at Temple Medical School. During his busy years of practice he was an earnest student of the progress of medical education, and as Associate Dean he visited many of the large medical schools of the Kastern and Middle sections of the country. He likewise attended clinics in important centers in order to further his knowledge of surgery. In 1924 he resigned as Associate Dean and went abroad to continue his studies, spending a year on the Continent and in the British clinics. Cpon his return he moved to St. Augustine, Florida, serving for a brief time as Assistant Surgeon at the Fast ('oast Hospital, shortly becoming Chief Surgeon to the same hospital. In 1929 he returned to his Alma Mater as Medical Director of the official Hospitals of Temple Cniversitv, and in a few months was made Dean of the Medical School. Since then our school has made phenomenal strides in achieving a national reputation, and it was only fitting that this, Temple Medical School’s most nationally representative class, should dedicate its book to him.

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Apprrriatums To the Fourth Year Class in the School of Medicine of Temple University: JT(T IS with great pleasure that I am thus per-jl mitted to add a few words of appreciation of what Dean Parkinson has done and is doing for your School of Medicine. I have watched with great interest the recent developments under Dr. Hammond, vour former Dean and under your present Dean. Anyone having the interests of medical education at heart, and having any pride in Philadelphia as a medical center, cannot help but be enthusiastic about the great advances made in the past few years bv our local medical schools. All have materially improved their teaching plants, have strengthened their faculties, and have improved their teaching. Temple, the youngest member of the group of five Philadelphia Schools, has, I think, made the greatest strides forward in the last five years of any of our schools, and I know that Dean Parkinson has had a large part in bringing about these advances at Temple. I congratulate your I'niversity in having at the head of its Medical School so capable a Dean. I am delighted with what he and others at Temple have accomplished for medical education in Philadelphia. The friendly relations existing between the schools in this city is a matter of comment by outsiders. It is my hope that we may still further improve these cordial relations. Dean. 'The I'niversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.