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

Page 21 text:

SURGICAL CLINIC “five-o nylon, please.” A line of burns to dress, sutures to remove while peeking for infection, elastic bandages, gauze wraps, not for the fastidious. We learned how much fun it is to apply a gel cast, that warts are very important to their owners, that little children require cotton in the doctors' ears, and that an ounce of prevention is worth many hours of cure. We'll wonder who it was who cut the sutures so short, how that guy managed to get that suture in there, and how we are going to get it out.

Page 20 text:

OUTPATIENT CLINICS

Page 22 text:

OB-GYN CLINICS I passed another clog today. Doc! ' How can you be comfortable taking a history with the patient in the lithotomy position? There s always a thrill when you find the uterus— and then there's that lost’' feeling you get examining the hysterectomy patient. We got our first look at the impact of cultural differences on child-birth and intra-uterine life. Who is willing to bet that those mothers of age fifteen won’t return when they are sixteen, seventeen and . . . ? Self-satisfaction was easily obtained—almost all patients had something treatable if we looked hard enough. But how come with our fantastic vocational and avocational interest in women, and with the help of speculum, tenaculum, paps and taps, we still couldn't understand them?