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

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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