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

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hrom Hippocrates on aown, tne student has occupiea an important place in the medical pecking order. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the modern teaching hospitals of our medical schools and clinic centers, which are literally student-centered. Vesalius' anatomy lesson has given way to a more complete and sophisticated teaching regimen whose aim, although similar in scope, is much more complete in effect. While vestiges of the Herr Professor classic tradition remain, today's medical student is apt to find himself an integral part of his university's medical picture; and, as such, he is able to contribute to its well-being in the course of his training. Although the vast body of medical knowledge remains on the infinite side of the intellectually possible and its component disciplines as obscure as ever to the uninitiated, today's young student of medicine may well echo Dylan Thomas and Sing in his chains like the sea.

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While it is true that thorough training and a variety of experience, together with an inquiring mind, are still the keystones of diagnosis, today's physician has at his disposal a great many technical aids that assist him in arriving at a reasonable diagnostic solution. It is obviously invaluable to possess that eye of an eagle, but few will argue that today’s x-ray equipment and various organ scanning devices possess that and more. The famous heart of a lion had better be a healthy one, for modern catherization techniques and oxygen saturation studies can ferret out even the smallest anatomic lesion. Probably even Sir William Osier would not object to this hand of a woman as it appears here with something called an auto-analyzing machine; and, with which, the operator is able to save valuable time while improving accuracy as well. The list of such time-saving, labor-saving, patient-saving devices is endless, and rightly so. After all, auscultation or arteriogram, man or machine — the goal remains the same. 13