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

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graduate Amazingly, the class stood almost unanimous in our decision, though not all decided to help pay. But even the lack of unanimity in our class wa» better than the other schools who decided in March to take the make-up test. Zevi. Rich Cohen and others worked hard with our attorney but the day before the boards our case was heard and shelved due to a technicality We would have to contact every other podiatry student by certified mail and ask them whether they were joining us before we next go in front of the Judge. We got the grades impounded, though, which seemed like a partial victory considering whom we were fighting. The Sixth Floor said that now we could show them with out dean test results that PCPM was now and everlasting 91 Unfortunately guys, the image was tarnished. Through our antagonist's substantiation of this whitewash, the rest of the country was burzing Oh. PCPM .. I should've known They've always done better on the Boards haven't they'' and VVhat was that - the Class of 78. they apply this year don't they? Two events which were pleasant to see in this whole mess were P P.M.S.A s financial support of our coup d’ESSAl, and watching a fool from Ohio live up to his reputation at our re-test The battle drifted into the summer though, as the burdens seemed more legal than personal The Class of 78. shellshocked, just tried to recoup Our other third year surprise wa% a small tuition raise $3700 to $5300. Told that we were balancing the budget all in one year, our school said that explaining this to our class, and having his job benefits' revealed while refusing to let us see the budget in loto? That supercilious affront' on Bates brought criticism from those who fell that our class was being unfair Our classroom experience passed by smoother and quicker than in the previous two years We were too absorbed with clinic, National boards, nd the tuition raise to fight over courses. In fact, we barely had enough strength left over for Vera Valient, and dude Collins. Dermatology with Dr Witkowski meant countless color slides of exzema, psoriasis, and pemphigus. It wa similar to learning a whole new language. Unfortunately most of us relied on an interpreter - our notetaker Dr Bhatt. whom we all felt made famous the musical chorus, Buarang, guarang guarang made the fatal mistake of treating us like interested medical students Unfortunately, PCPM's future pride and jou did not own the academic curiosity to support lectures on the axonal characteristics of squid. PVD was taught by Drs Skversky, Cohen, and Corman. Who'll forget Corman s lecture on Peripheral Vascular Anatomy - one of the most boring in our four years? Remember the text from the Mayo Clinic with the token podiatry chapter blood ointment as therapy for ulcers the difference between Raynaud's Disease and Raynaud's Phenomenon? Orthotics and Prosthetics with Hymes was a double misnomer taught by a guy who made his first million from tow crests. He also had a terrible sense of humor - which was a shame since w-e thought that his son Gary was a riot! Dr Pressman taught us General Orthopedics. Unfortunately, tibial and femoral torsion were confusing once more as the Orthopedics Department could not agree on definitions of anteversion, antetorsion. malleolar torsion, etc. A consolation to some was the final exam, which in PCPM tradition wav a repeat Art the Dart Helfand or ' Short Ribs (as a few brave souls dared to nickname him) taught Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Community Health I and 11. In Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation he brought in Mr Bruno, alias Joe E. Brown who entertained us with crutch walking tasks. For Community Health I and II we learned not to apply to a hospital until waiting twenty years, and that PS.RO was the destiny of podiatry Dr. Becket was our teacher in Anesthesiology but he will be remembered best as a member of that department at Suburban General Hospital which had a fatal gas mix-up in the E R He might also be remembered for wearing a velvet sport coat everyday no matter how warm. Since we had little or no printed notes or text, it was only fitting that the final exam was an automatic pass. That didn't stop some of us though who snuck up and changed answers after passing the test in. Dr. Karpo greeted us in Pediatrics with the statement that we would know everything there was to know about Pediatrics Then, he proceeded to miss almost the entire first trimester. To help fill the time, Vince Mandracchia gave a lecture on Osteochondroses, and we were given a paper. Jesse Lieberman and Ernestine Estes who? taught Statistical Epidemiology which was nothing more than a treatise on Chi-Squares. Internal Medicine with Dr Honivh rt al wav going along great until they realized that there wa- a 2nd trimester to our course They thought that they would be repeating the same lectures to a new group of students In Psychiatry, we got to hear Louis Stearns and Dave Laurance's earliest memories as infants Louie won at three months. We also all wrote down our dirtiest words, and listened to Dr Rudmck's views on sex Minimal Incision Surgery was an elective. We didn’t think the school knew what an elective was. For the benefit of Arden, it should ve been renamed Minimal Effort Money. In Surgery we had courses in the digits, metatarsals, and bunions by Contompavis. Jacobs, and Novicki Remember Grabb and Smith Ruiz and Mora Bonney and Kcs-el and Smith and Weil? Andy Newman and the Palatine Parkview residents came to US in third year to teach traumatology The bone breakers taught us everything we wanted to know about fractures .. but said nothing on how to get to Parkview- Sports medicine was a laugh Gary Gordon showed up twice, and the rest of it was How to Tape Jocks by Jimmy Rodgers Anyone remember Hank needing three attempts to pass the ankle taping? Dr Seave who was a podiatrist turned lawyer played the The Man Who Would be King in Forensic Podiatry. It was a mixed class with the 4th year and he deservedly received the brunt of their gumpyness.' How many times did he ask u» to turn open our texts which nobody brought to class or owned? Malpractice was taught by the father of Philadelphia podiatric surgery, also the father of Andy Newman Who is shy. unassuming, bashful Lou Newman. There was a man who hated to hear himself talk unless it was about himself. Other events in our third year included community health centers, anesthesiology rotations, cheating, and new students. Class census was increased to 102 with the additions of Aber. Padula. and Issacs. Padula who took a 3 month vacation Aber who took a 9 month vacation and Issacs, who had a 12 month vacation, will never been forgotten Nor will the Philadelphia community health centers be forgotten for their introduction to podiatry's role in the community. Anesthesiology, although only two weeks long, will be remembered as our first hospital externship. The acknowledgement of cheating in the class was unfortunate as there were thovr who felt that cheaters had rights, too. Our fourth and last P.C.P.M. year did not begin in September. 1977; nor did it begin with summer session at the June previous. In reality it began in March of our third year when we endeavored to choose and be chosen for our senior externships As in the Lord's six days of work, we prepared mightily, unknowingly in the weeks antecedent, priming for externship selection—a microcosm of what appeared to be life after death itself the residency. Never let it be said that we. the Class of 1978, could not mentally sustain the unpleasantry of parochial existence. Like longshoremen entering under the red light, we lived, ate. and slept with our whore: the residency. The externships were that hors d'oerves the pimp, if you may Do you have to go to Rosewood if you want the program? Are there really all crazies there? Do you get anything at Rolling Hill? Doexterns present a paper at Parkview? Who knows anything about LaPorta's program? Will it become a residency? How come Jacobs picked the same students for all of his Washington Memorial programs? With Zevi's direction we attempted, and succeeded fairly well, to schedule the fourth year First, trimesters were chosen. Most of us wanted clinic first so we could unofficially get the hell outa here on December 2nd Only two people. Hieke and Baltey. actually picked the third trimester for clinic. The philosophical debates began over which were the best trimesters for each—allied facilities, externships, and clinic The cauldron was spiced-up through Dr. Rockett's decision to allow every student one free month during allied facility trimester to pursue preceptorship experience. (Ha. Ha!) The crucial fall trimester was the most controversial, as it was just prior to interview selection. Should you go to school to get it over with or should you take allied facility so that a free month for handshaking would become available? In school, you could actively pursue letters of recommendation- and get friendly with the clinicians. Outside school, you could visit all of your choices. 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