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

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It was about mid-November before the class had settled down. A-14 had become legend in his own time, Stein Had on opinion on everything. and everybody was waiting to »e who would drop out next- Physiology was taught by another team, that of Doctors Pitkow and Mar bach They taught us the dynamics of the Na-K pump, the role of Cs in muscle contraction, one dozen respiration definitions, and all about hormones including what or who DianebaKd?). Dr. Pitkow had numerous funny lines but noone recorded them for posterity. The cIam began experimenting with the use of a note-taker. Conclusion: Canadians aren't all bad. Dr. Whitney’s biomechanics claw. » remembered for its artistic value and iu ambiguity. Introduction to Podiatry, starring the great vaudeville team of Dr. Shapiro (who many of us suspected was the real Woody Allen) and Dr. Lyons, was a great ego builder. With such profound remarks as. How many of you would have come here if the degree didn’t any doctor who’s here just for the money I won’t tell you how much I make, only the number of patients 1 see on an overage night. how could we go wrong? Now that we’ve come to the end of remembering the first year, we will have a mini-quir 1. - Who briefly started the fad of microwaving peanut butter aandwiches before his quick resignation from class? 2. - Who uxxt Mr. Question-Bowtie Man? 3. - What was the name of the girl who had to drop out to support her husband who just made R.D. school as an alternate? 4. - What is the name of the alternate who replaced that girl? Does Dr. Lyon really have a neck and ear lobes? If you answered only his hair dresser knows for sure for number five, you can go on to the second year. They said there would be less pressure on ua during our second year, they forgot to add that there would also be more work. Instead of 106 pages of Harford’s notes that had to be memo rixed, now there were 56 of Schoenhaus that first had to be translated. Can you remember. - the wildly original bywords of micro lab. “name the top of the loop three tiroes' our highly competent pathology department. which covered every disease imaginable except for one — narcolepsy — which affected 95 !t of the class -Bill Patterson’s expertise on snake bite -Dr. Schoenhaus trying to synthesize the works of Sgarlato. Kite. Root and (Seemingly) Norm Crosby -Radiology, in which Dr. Tuddenhnm, after leaching the course eight times, began the semester by asking us how many years we go to school for (he had learned the year before that we treat the foot)

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-Orthopedic and Dr. Whitney, who lectures often would hove been more coherent had they been tape-recorded and played backward -Dr. Kehr'fi x-ray filims -the Abe-precipitated class meeting , where 90 ,' of the class tried to convince the other 10'n not to a) write a term paper, b) take a lab exam, and c) give Abe the professor of the year award • learning to wash our hands with Plo -the Dance of the Hysterics, aa performed by Marvin Mordes -Dr. Dcr Madenwian up to his pupik in marijuana at the U.S. Government's plantation -Dr. Kraus ' forty-year old onychopathy slide -Emil Bighorn, an Egyptlun microbiologist by way of Leningrad trying to teach the 1-ntin names of fungi to American students • how Dr. Kehr's x-ray interpretations usual ly differed from those of every known radiology text -wondering if the patient load in the clinic would be enough for our class • Dr. Jacob, the med student on loan from Temple who always felt sorry for the people he flunked in Pharm -waiting to be called on by Dr. Znslow in surgery •Dr. Larry Levine -getting 100 on Schoenhnus quizzes hv answering the True-False questions before he read them out -thinking that, after the first two years and Part I of the National Boards, everything else would lie a piece of cake??? Anyway, after spending many weeks of studying for those National Boards, we approached with feelings of excitement our third year, the year in which we finally became “R.P.V -Real Pods, that is. Mornings were filled with twenty-eight for orthopedics, and “Please return the injection tray to Pharmacy, while afternoons were cramped with academia of a different vein. P.M. was n real treat- toe jam, mounds of mycotic dust, the wrath of Whip Woman, “Check the ahoea. Doctor, and “The rubber bus has arrived! The rubber bus brought to our clinic some of the moat unique pationta. For example, it was not unusual tu have a rubber busser demonstrate the mass reflex while talking into your Dremel drill. With Dr. Kwasnik in PM 1, Dr Maglielte in PM 2, l)r. Orowitz in PM 3, and Russian Roulette in PM 4, many hours of drawing blood both patients' and our own-were practiced while chippin' and dippin' Some fortunate students attended workshops, because there just wasn't any room for us. Maybe we can enroll the administration in a planned parenthood program. The wurkshopa were nothing more than a waste of time for both us and our baby-sitter. The most impressive course presented during this time was Radiology with Dr. Kehr Here, wc learned practical x-ray interpretation which should have been given during our second year. n