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

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26 Seniors ABOVE: Asani Phillips proudly displaying the Temple flag at the end of year BBQ in Fairmont Park. 204 Faculty 236 Match Day BELOW: Suja Sabastin and Dana Shanis practicing intubation in the Simulation Lab during an ER rotation 250 Student Life 304 Patrons 2007 Skull V 3

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 Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson ABOVE: Jordan Newmark, Robyn Schultz, Mark Scully and Chris Sanders strutting their stuff down Broad Street on their way to lunch. II lemple University School of medicine

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Lawrence Kaplan, M.D. Section Chief, General Internal Medicine Associate Professor, Medicine Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine hat does it mean to be a doctor? And how do we become good ones? Some think that doctoring is like playing God, but I think that being a doctor is utterly, humbly, human. And if being a doctor is human, then being a great doctor involves the distinctly human abilities to listen, to learn, to comfort. For what is more human than listening to our neighbors, than examining our subjects? Than actively learning and, in turn, teaching7 Those of us who remember our first hemoccult exam during our first rotation on the wards know just how human doctoring is. And those of us who have participated in end-of-life withdrawal-of-care conversations know the breadth of medical humanity. And so in choosing a dedicatee of our yearbook, the class of 2007 voted and chose a gentleman whose life and work exemplify this sense of humanity. These qualities make him not only an exceptional physician, adored by his patients, but a wonderful teacher, revered by his students. Born at Temple University Hospital on June 4, 1958, Dr. Lawrence Kaplan was destined to be a Temple physi- cian. His mother, Miriam, a school teacher, graduated from Temple in 1954 with a degree in education. And his father, Alvin, graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in 1955. One of four children. Dr. Kaplan spent his early years living above the emergency room at Philadelphia General Hospital, where his dad worked. When Dr. Kaplan was still young his family moved to a town near Princeton NJ when Alvin Kaplan took a new job at Robert Wood Johnson. He wasn’t a perfect child, but a happy one. A self-described. “ADD-kid,” Dr. Kaplan was an average student, focusing most of his attention on his guitar, his many bands, his study of sculpture, and on his sports— tennis and ice hockey. Upon entering Boston University, like many of us, Dr Kaplan had no idea what he wanted to study. After realizing that he absolutely could not major in ice hockey, he tried studying architecture, the history' of science and public health, and eventually found his way to a degree in biology and psychology in 1980. Throughout his years in Boston, Dr. Kaplan never forgot his medical roots. While day dreaming at the library 4 Temple Uniuersitg School of medicine