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

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with a water pistol and set him into St. Vitus' Dance. Howie then chased him around the entire 3rd floor Rudman was even in an elevator alone with Carl Marbach God help the building! In dog laboratory with Mad Dog Weiner we learned how to slowly kill and perform tracheostomies. The surgeons came out of u» Louie even did a defibrillation in a cardiac arrest. But. maybe the classic memory of all was ill fated Livingston's famous remark after another acud dog death amidst all the bustle C'cst la vie. Biochemistry was full of EM pathways and hexose monophosphate shunts. Our professor was Dr Marilyn Renton whose dramatic appeal was overstated throughout the year simply overstated throughout the year simply because she always kept her long lab coat buttoned The big questions became what did she wear underneath that coat and, who was she dating (Neal Yudkoff?) Who will ever forget Espcr writing I HATE BIOCHEMISTRY in the matching portion of our midterm Our first year will never be forgotten, neither by us, nor those around us. We fought with the faculty, the administration, the staff, and even the President-in-waiting - Bill Bowman. We weren't allowed to fight with the Board of Trustees. We fought with the vending machines, the bookstore, the librarian, P.P.S.A., our spouses, but mostly with each other Who can forget mummy-like John Yubas, always meditating with his worry beads, suddenly exploding at poor Hal Glatzer with tons of expletives? It wa always the back of the room vs the front of the room And then there were the geographical coteries: Ferry Ave. Grp. A (Arena, Smith. E Cohen. Berkey, Novick, Peffer. Davis. Kramer) . Cooper River Plaza Boys (Hamberg. W’einthal. Yudkoff) Northeast Gang (Goldman. Laver, Subic). R. Cohen, Greenberg. Isseroff. D Ziegler. Widom) Ferry Aven Grp. B (Rudman, Eisenberg, Levy. Battey, Weinreb. Poster. Kelley. Esper. also Lawrence) and the Center City Crew (Collins. Donohue. Gordon. Walter. Murray. Pectinelli, Schuster. Abramson. Spector). Elections were fun We learned much about each other that day Chet The Polish Prince waxed on, and on, about invaluable experience as a Navy man and loan officer. Finally, we voted Donohue, Rudman. and Weinreb in that ordet, and they became our triumvarate - President, V.P.. and P.P.S.A representatives. Through them we battled bitterly, especially against our archfiend Gibley. Our major accomplishment was the adoption of trimesters We were so well liked by everybody that year the other classes decided to show their affection be delegating us as a sacrificial class to remain on grades. This was to the mock chagrin of the front of the room. We looked forward to the day when we would be upperclassmen. In the mean while, it was getting harder and harder to emulate those above us then - 'The Gumps laughing and sitting in the lounge with pot bellies and girlie magazines. First year memories there are plenty of them: the St Vitus Dance with Louis Stearns and the Iliotibial Band Sartor's famous 7.00 a m coffee meetings to air gripes plus one explosion by D. Laurence Jefferson Library which was 'The Study Place , especially before finals where at 3:00 a.m you could find Eisenberg. Donohue, or Starrett having a breakfast recess across the street Ray Esper. who when he got mad got his Ya Ya's” out the Sterling Harford Anatomical Society, A point of paranoia for the 13 of the class who didn’t have to worry about failing, and didn't want to worry about being average .. the Wives' Club who received an introduction to Bill Starrett Doc Watson's Pub. our best watering hole, especially on a Wednesday or Friday Remember when Bruce Cohen showed the films Deep Throat, and W.C Fields' The Dentist Casey's in the afternoon after tests for rounds of beer and sandwiches bothering Helene Fuhrmeister the school parking lot - one of the nicest things in our first year and famous roommates: Yuas and Jani. Battey and Eisenberg. Leona and family. Slcig and Huntress. Rudman and Levy and E Cohen and who put exlax in the peanut butter. Smith and Weinreb. Berkey and Cockroaches. Louis and Mother, Moglia and Pruzansky, and Maffei and Weights In out first PCPM summer there was no clinic, mote mairiages. summer school, Di Pnmio picking up a hithhiker in O R. green’s named Jani, and our first class grades and ranking. We ended up our first year with 103. Microbiology, taught by Dr. Carl Abramson, has to be the course most remembered in our 2nd year We had a running battle for o months starting with term papers and seating, and never really ending. Among fomites, Mycobacterium Battey, and RNA coated viruses, we did it all. We spent more hours in Micro than any other school in Philadelphia where we would have 30 pages of Parasitology notes, the Ohio school had but one. Twice as much time was spent in laboratory looking at fungi than studying mechanics of the foot. Gibley and the Curriculum Committee heard our case and turned us away In response to our feelings and our inalibity to cope Abramson retaliated with the famous A sham deserves a shaft . Who can forget the other classics as Closttidia are found in the vagina and other deep wounds. and to Larry. Atopia may be inherited, but Micro sure isn't!'' Who can forget Bohdan Terleckyj mumbling a lecture or Emil Bishata mumbling everything Dave Axler - a real bright spot the film by Gary Igor' Fischman with broken eggs in his hand our first trimester final which was composed of a case history Jay Satz and the Swine flu and our famous Abramson rabbit tceshits which prompted the All feces look alike” remakr, and were worn to our final In March, 1976 we thought we washed our hands in Micro unaware of what was to come. Pathomechanics was taught most of the lime by Dr. Schoenhaus and part of the time by nobody as he usually came very late When he did come, we were treated to stories of him speeding over the Ben Franklin Bridge at midnight doing a D C on thest day of his residency and performing tibial osteotomies. Remember our choice of study material? It was cither Sgarlato's comedy of errors, or handout notes with idyllic tales of Big Bird and farting Our Monday quizzes were canceled if the Eagles won we had many quizzes that year. We ll never forget the gait cycle but what was a Gait Study Center? Good ol A.K. Whitney taught us Podiatric Orthopedics where even he wasn't sure of the test answers. It was a woefully scanty course, but he tried his hardest. We were lectured to about MOrton and the influence of the forefoot on the rearfoot and we made UMO's and VMO's from his doorway into a box on top of a shelf? Dr Sidney Arden also known as Jack Benny' and Sidney Sominex taught Pathology. His wa' probably the first class to suffer Friday afternoon disease. Wednesday lab sessions were no better, though taught by some of Phil adelphia's top pathologists. It was an easy grade until he was told that we had the old test Sid will always be remembered for his good course, the Frankford Hospital Exterships. and his inspiring of the best of Weinrcb's imitations. Onycitopathy was with Dr. Charles Krause. We were probably the 60th class in a row to be taught how to spell BUROW’S solution Remember receiving our test answers by mail Clinical Podiatry came to is via Kidawa and the P M (Practice injections, and even clinical lab with Wendy Bloom Remember Arme Karpo retting us that the PH of skin is 7.5? However, in the spring we received our reward one hour week to watch the Gumps work away at C C O R Protocol was taught by Florence Connerton - not exactly Wendy Bloom's archetype With the help of some upperclassmen, and Claudia whose assets to the school will never really be known, we learned how to scrub, gown, and glove X 3. Flo taught us FECKIES the three types of local anesthetic toxicity and how to save a choking doctor who can t eat steak properly For Introduction to Surgery, the school hired Dr. Silverman and his residents from Metropolitan Hospital After being told of his son's persecution as a D.O.. we were finally taught afout shock, burns, and G I tubes Remember getting the final exam ahead of time? Dr. Tuddenham from Pennsylvania Hospital taught Radiology. Fondly referred to as Turd in Hand , he never could comprehend how many years of school we had The highlights were receiving Pass-Fail marks due to a syllabus error, and hearing the guest lecturer talk about breasts. Pharmacology was given by Len Jacob, and Ara Der Marderosian. Remember the classic fights with Espei the question on the Caine family Jacob's stubbornness over changing grades the National Board questions? In lab we learned chemical warfare, and even tested Nair on rabbit skin Unfortunately, we never even learned how to give an l.M. injection. In Podiatric Pharmacology we were exposed to prescription writing, and the ubiquitous detail man through Dr. Brittner • a part-time podiatrist Roentgenology was with Leon Kehr who should have switched assignments with Tuddenham Who can forget filum or those tests of development of 12 year old girls we ll always remember Albright's Syndrome. Dr. Green was to be the new Surgery Department Chairman replacing Guido La Porta. He taught us Introduction to Podiatric Surgery. The smoothie from Atlanta, a real mild mannered Clark Kent he was until we got to clinic. He spent three weeks telling us rules for the next two years. Basic Neurology was with Marvin Rigor Mordes. A podiatry school dropout, he was on his way to John Hopkins, he said He was probably traveling 8

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on the MLF ... The second yeai was a transition for us We lost students and we gained students We went for Basic Science to Ba ic Podiatry, and wc went from our parking lot to NoMan's Land. And. instead of fighting with Gibley every week, wr now fought every day Our new students were Jim Le Cou Rouge Palermo. Joe Slick Piccotti. and Marc Grossack Immediately they were assigned secret numbers 9104,10S. and 106 We were not in a new classroom next door, but mostly we stayed in the same seats. We had new- leaders, too. Peffer, who blushed alot and whose campaign speech was given by Kramer, was President Vudkoff and Gerbush were V P and P.P M S.A representatives. Cheryl was our Treasurer, and Arena was Secretary. They were a reactionary statement to a vociferous back of the room. Perennial losers were Rudman. Battey. and Johns. As a result, we had scores of meetings and class votes. Who can forget the conflicts of grades vs. pass-fail when to schedule our tests and whether we should strike! And. whatever happened to Neil Donohue? How many times did copies of old tests turn up after we just took identical ones with countless accusations towards some friends from Ferry Station? Everyone was fighting remember Eisenberg vs. Polonsky? Hoping that out spirit would stay with the new freshman class, we all joined the Orientation Committee. Our interest soon faded though, after they let themselves get locked in a room during a test. Of course, our sophomore school year offered memories which weren't so upsetting We ll never forget Weinreb with his laugh machine, and dog sounds ... the birthday roast for Zion Esper with his pointer , and slapping a picture of Harry Neilsen behind Schoenhaus' back Dave Johns starting every sentence with an obnoxious Sir Turtle's bachelor party where the littlest guys showed us all Levinson going to the Dominican Republic and Rosenberg and Steinberg tanned in the winter In that summer after 2nd year we officially entered clinic for one month each Some of us had prior experience every Saturday while sophomores rotating in P.M I with Giggles Kwasnik P M il with Nursing Home Maglietta P.M. Ill with Eyes Orowitz P M IV with Potpourri X-rat with Elyse and Physical Therapy. We dreaded having Catville pop into our module but learned to suffer humiliation in front of patients. Remember the rubber bus coming at a quarter to twelve those damn medcolators the injection tray .. trying to find elastoplast arranging names by letters in x-ray setting up your module .. the podiatric assistants iatrogenic bleeding . and walking by the other side of clinic where the Corvette Club hung out (Schoenhaus - yellow, Karpo - yellow. Pressman purple, and Jay - Brown). People started preparing for National Boards Part I some of us even studied Micro (little did we know) Getting our last competitive grade so wr though, before residency applicatin, did the usual things to the usual people. Some at Frankfotd studied for Boards instead of learning pathology; and in August, it was amazing how many people called in sick the says before the Boards nice guys. Of course, copies of Board questions from years past floated around (e.g. The Pituitary Gland is located where - head, neck, r. leg. or abdomen). We took our Boards over two days in two small classrooms, with two Proctors at Temple University. The desks were about give inches square and our Proctors were about 40 minutes late the first day. The cheaters still sat around each other prompting the Proctors to randomly switch people around during a test where time was precious We even had two people join us who had failed the Boards previously One bright guy from N Y. was in a residency and hadn't passed Gross Anatomy yet The census at the end of out sophomore year was ninety-nine as we lost many friends In our third year, we made the adjustment to clinic on an everyday basis. Clinic from 8-1. and classes from 1-5. Clinic was supposed to end around noon so we thought, but finding a clinician after 11:45 to see your last patient delayed things In fact, if you were in Diagnosis or Orthopedics you had trouble finding a clinician at any time. Diagnosis was constant H tc P's, and referrals to Orthopedics for Biomechanical - If it was a surgery, then it was either sent to the Surgery Department reluctantly, or Stolen. Since it was impossible much of the time to find a clinician, we relied heavily on the 4th year Gumps They taught us well how to be gophers go for this, go for that . memories will be - calling Kidawa down from his office Lee and Mary Ann with charts at noon Lemont prescribing colchionc for all symptoms Croce Marcus Weber Costanzo. Orthopedics was unique unto itself. Either there was no clinician available, or there were five of them flapping their wings and beating their chests along the corridor wall, or both often there was just Whitney and or Pressman handling all of us. We knew to go to Pressman or Schoenhaus if a patient needed correction, and to Whitney if support was indicated Karpo wore sport jackets which looked like throw away rugs Jay had the perpetual obnoxious smile and McNerney and Ganley were too good to come too frequently Will you ever forget running out of rohadur running out of vinyl mold Whitney's attempt at organization and his appointment book? Surgery was filled with talented clinicians . Green. Martin, Jacobs, Contompoais. Novicki, Melillo. Unfortunately, there weren't enough in-house surgeries for us to be taught with. Most of our time was spent in the conference room trying to get the next pre-op that came up. Remember seeing the good cases to out to Metropolitan, Rolling Hill. Parkview? Remember soaping a patient Green taking attendance Leona and Steig fighting over a case . . . Smith and Rosenberg fighting over a cate Post-op after post-op after post-op Our first PCP degree was the Doctorium Orthoticum Constructorium. We all received it Magna Cum Nolo from the Mavin of Molds - Dr Le Bovith upon orthotic lab graduation we all partied with beer. wine, cheese and chips and signed each other's spenco Physical therapy meant two weeks of watching people twitch, and take bubble baths. It also meant Minnie , everyone's favorite patient who came in three times a week and told u - how to treat her She found solace in Louis though as did all the P.T. patients. When we wanted solace we went to Moss or Hclfand who both gave great massages Rabin and Adams probably gave great massages also unfortunately, we couldn t even get them to talk X-ray rotation was fun We got to spend one to two days in the dark room with that ugly coat make up nameplates and read Cosmopolitan with Elyse. Clinical Lab was a week with Judy Newman and her gang. An impostion and a waste of time for us and them, we quickly made it three short mornings with the Coulter counter Other fillers were x-ray interpretation, Weismann taught us all the angles while Kehr just read Filums. In gait study. Marv Jacoby designed reports for us on the stuff we didn't learn in biophysics We learned how to play nurse anesthetist and circulating nurse while on O R rotation. Can you forget a certain surgeon always losing his temper seeing Ray Esper. a 2nd year student, trying to teach 3rd and 4th year students how to do surgery Claudia watching everyone else work Joe Jani in greens? Third year was also a time for Mad Dogs and Englishmen as we met Leila and Perner. They were part of the P.M. Department Three months we spent there usually trying to dodge Carville Remember Doctor - learn to work those chairs Check the shoes . ' What is the etiology? Does your patient cat hamburger? Did you forget Master's 5th toe pads Not ever seeing a verruca Making toe crests . Standing in line with your patient at the checkout desk MPC Feeling like a child molester whenever having to ask the people in Pharmacy for something? A slightly more moderate group was elected to office in our third year, and subsequently in our fourth year Useroff, Novick. Romcu Wcissmcycr, Steiner, and Mellon. Their job was cut out for them though in our Microbiology dilemma We had the good fortune in December of finding out that our Micro Board scores were being invalidated. The reason was ' compromised questions that we were supposedly familiar with. Some intelligent Ohio students who had received copies of our Micro notes and tests complained to the National Board Committee after the September test about similarity. To most of us this was a complete shock, but the National Board of Podiatry Examiners said no matter. In fact, we didn't even get consulted in the decision. We were just told of the remedy - retake the Micro boards Gibley. who incidentally happened to be Administrator for the Board, told us that we had been well represented by him Of course that made us feel better and wr thanked him with our incredulousness and favorite expletives. So, .. the onus was on Abramson and us. We personally gave him our support, and decided to fight Gibley and the Board. They refused to show any evidence or written matter, thus we hired a lawyer. Unfortunately, the make-up exam was scheduled for soon - April 16. 1977, so our best bet was to force an injunction on the test. Upon hearing this, the Sixth Floor fallied to support us by announcing that we had not yet PASSED our Micro Boards thus we would not be eligible to 10