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

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BUN, CNS, PA, and I thought the government had a monopoly on the alphabet. But Dr. Kolmer, don’t destroy me! Alcoholics and cirrhotics; if they go, I must go too! I was born of an inebriated delusion! Maybe you’re right though. Yes, the world might be better off without me and my kind. But let me finish the year first, please, before you annihilate my fantasy.

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ND. YEAR Upon our return in the early autumn, we were reassured by the Department of Physiology of beginning with a familiar subject. The times that try the souls of men (physiologists espe-dally) occurred with wondrous frequency when we were in that lab, and it is no wonder that we were often too much for Dr. Oppenheimer. There was the time an E.K.G. of a dog with auricular fibrillation was substituted for that of a student, and a frantic Oppie came from the darkroom telling the student to be calm. His remarks when the carelessness was revealed fortunately have not been preserved. And we were all Dr. Greisheimers children.” This attitude was expressed in the grading of those questions emanating from the little office with the chopped-off door. Maybe you were right about this part of the question, ”but here was something wrong that had been overlooked.” Thus a passing 78 was converted into a miserable 71; but justice was done in its own peculiar way, and where but there was the court of last appeal? The presence of Kitty Weston, Wendy Wester, and Dr. Sokolchuk aided a great deal. Our fumbling, twelve finger approach to dog surgery would have led to a much higher dog (and student) mortality rate had not their facile fingers and minds been present to rescue us from impossible situations. When Dr. Ring appeared on the horizon, the fog of ignorance concerning endocrinology was raised slightly. We now felt that we had a working knowledge of the pituitary-adrenal axis and that we would not completely lose our way in the forest of endocrinological confusion. We could tell from the questions in the final those who 20