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

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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

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Finally, we moved Ui the other side of the clinic in hopes we might then learn aomrthing. Boy. were we wrong! Orthopedics consisted of Brachman plates and Whitman skates, Bohler'sangle, the Sag index, and the 'angle of the dangle' compliments of the triad of egos. King Hamid the First, Prince Harpo thr Second. and the (!ourt Jester would play charades each morning. Many a student in orthopedics would hear. You. yes you, you got one!” One what? wc would ask. The King would demand o presentation the following morning of the Action of the extensor digitorum brevis on the fifth MPJ. Our class has been notable for cutting, and not all of it was performed in surgery. Oh, surgery, that wonderful rotation to determine how dex-terious your ten golden fingers were at operating bandage scissors. Many hours of practice were employed sewing felt While keeping ourselves occupied, a new suture method was created; it was called the knit one and pearl-two • get me out of the too. If we demonstrated inadequacy in the O.H., there went our chances at Southlake. Cosmopolitain. and Urn. ORTHOPEDICS Dingnoaia. the phantom department, consisted of a few ergos and thuslys, supplied by Tony the 'K'. Just remember, Sugar Froated Flakes ore Grrreat! At lost It would be time for lunch, and os we prepared to depart from the clinical environment to enjoy our gourmet treats of a soft pret-rel and a Coke, a voice echoed over the huddling crowd: One for Surgery! Our esteemed Professor of Orthodigitu, Dr. Hymes, spent many hours discussing the merits of the LcBovith sling, the Engle splint, and CRTC with halters 3-4. We were also into halters, but they were on girls nnd they wren't filled with urethane! Dr. LcBovith in the OrthoticB Lab demonstrated rubber butter batter. We understand his recipe is available through Betty Crocker One of the highlights of our third year was receiving our Doctorium Orthoticum Constructorium degree with the honor of Magnn Cum Molo. As we received our degree, our minds were on June 1977 when we would get the real thing. Neurology with Dr. Mordes was a course in mnemonics. We're still trying to decifer the significance of COWS in neuro-diagnosi . Derraatology with Dr. Witkowski was extreme ly stimulating and dynamic, with many hours spent studying the fine art of Bridge nnd the itchy gitchy syndromes predominant in Peruvian lliunos. Dr. Kudnick, Redneck or Spot nick, the chairman and only faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry, presented a very stimulating movie on the joy of sex, courtesy of u qua driplegic. While visiting Pennhurst on our Allied Facility rotation, wc were cautioned to be wary of female schizophrenics with eggs in U