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

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Second year ended with Dr. Arden’s Pathology class on Friday afternoons. This was an eminently cuttable class since the room was usually dark and Dr. Arden never looked up past the first two rows. Rumor Central, that oft quoted bastion of truth at P.C.P.M., had it on good authority that Dr. Arden cut his own class to attend a Friday beer party. The end of second year was marked by what was becoming the traditional end of the year party at Ferry Station. The fine art of launching ballons from a rubber-hose slingshot was well perfected by this time. Summer provided us our first opportunity at clinical experience. But as the end of August drew near, the paranoia level rose to heights never before seen. With boards over, it seemed like summer vacation went by so quickly. It was hard fitting in a whole summer in a weekend. I guess it was for that reason that I was a bit Fuzzy and not in quite the right state of mind when upon walking into clinic heard Lee calling over the MASH PA system. ”15 for DI-AG-NOSIS! The hardest thing about diagnosis was trying to figure out which was Diagnosis I and which was Diagnosis II. (We were so used to all the classrooms looking like 3IS). And to make matters worse, there was a different clinician each day in Diagnosis. (How many times did you call Dr. Brushkoff, Dr. Zlotoff?) But if you think you were confused, think of the tough time Dr. Harvey (Who had my course) Lemont had. 8

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Microbiology was like a chronic gram-negative nosocomial infection. By the end of the course it had extracted it’s toll: The 1 student in our class and an instructor ( Tinea”). The rest of us were duly counted each class by Bohdad Terlecki, M.A. (Master of Attendance) and were treated to the weekly Carl Abramson show on those days in lab when we weren't being tested. Dennis contracted almost every disease we studied in an effort to get extra credit. Dr. Abramson demonstrated his basic good nature when he passed all of us that participated in the Roast (If you want a copy of the tape we made see us after graduation!). I do not remember the name of Dr. Whitney's second year course but I do remember that we cut out paper BMO’s for the final and learned the intricate theory behind them. It was not until we were in clinic that we’d learn that the culmination of this intricate theory was the varus test pad.” Pathomechanics was presented by Dr. Harold Schoenhaus and Pierre Cardin. Dr. Schoenhaus was a well dressed pod who lectured with Root, consulted for Langer, gave advice to god and had to wait until the sixth class for his beeper to go off. Dr. Schoenhaus is forming a pipe smoking club with Drs. Silverman, Silverberg and Silverstein — If Dr. Pittman wants to join no one will try to stop him. If Dr. Schoenhaus is a rearfoot man and Dr. Whitney a forefoot man, then Dr. Hymes must be considered a toes man. Don’t you think hallux valgus half head ram should be a football play, rather than an orthodigital device? How about this: Hup I Hup 2. CRTC 3 Hike! Dr. Keh-her had a very unique answer to students studying old exams. He gave the same exams every year and merely changed the answers! Luckily 60% of the answers were A . And if you want to you could memorize the names on the Fil-lems. (Mrs. Jones- was she the one with the osteoid osteoma?) 7

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Sometimes it was like playing a game show with Dr. Lemont . . give me all 26 letters of the alaphabet and I'll name a disease that affects the palms and soles! Diagnosis was easy to take especially since it was the only time out of the semester you would learn anything. For most people, the clinical lab was held in Florida. While this was easy to take, anesthesiology was a real challenge. One could only daydream for so long while standing for 5 hours in one spot while a gallbladder was being removed. (The foot is connecter to the rest of the body, really it is!) This point was discussed in detail by Marv (Burp,ahem, gurggle) Jacoby where he made us into physicists and computer analysts in just two weeks. But at least you finally got a chance to play with those force plates that they show to everyone on the interview tour. Of this group, x-ray was of definite value. The best part was having to look at Elyse for 3 hours a day. With the end of the vacation trimester one shape by Dr. Green et al. was quickly sobered and whipped into But while Dr. Green was laying down his criteria and rules, Dr. Comptompasis came to the crux of the matter with the only three rules of surgery you needed to Know: Sew something to something, If its in the same room it will heal and It’s only a foot. Of course, if you talked to Alan Jacobs, he could list 183 exceptions for each of the above. Orthopedics was a different story. It proved that Medicine is not a science. (Do you get what I mean?) The only difference between the way we make orthoses and the way our ancestors made them is ours are made of acrylic and they used molo. On Mondays and Thursdays the rearfoot controlled the forefoot and on Wednesday and Friday the forefoot controlled the rearfoot. And if steroids, lidocaine and a low dye strap didn’t work (and it was after II AM), fear not for behold, God created physical therapy. 9