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

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I can't get to sleep Those lesions they keep reoccuring Reappoint 'em in six weeks Patients leaving and then returning Especially at night I think about those situations That might be surgerized And it's just overkill (Chorus) I can't get to sleep These classes give me agitation Counting empty seats Or cutting without hesitation Working just to pass Doesn't give much consolation Or take 'em all to CAPS 'Cause it's just overkill (D. Robin '84) Act IV •For Your Information: Rearfoot varus has been chosen as the Official Deformity of the U.S. Summer Olympics The news hit like a bomb; the replacement for Dr. Green was going to revamp our surgery check-off sheets. Dropped would be: surgical redressing, suture removal and xray interpretation. Added on would be: liver biopsy, lumbar puncture, and modified radical mastectomy. This, supposedly, is part of the 4th Reich plans to put PCPM in its rightful place as the World Foot Health Center. Yes, once again PCPM is forging new paths on the frontiers of podiatry in an effort to push our legal boundaries clear up to and including T3. Don't hold me to it, but this move may take us international! Fourth year was very unlike any other that went before. Spending only a portion of the year at PCPM, we seemed to miss the important advances here at home that would mean more to us in our futures as Podiatrists than any residency any of us could procure. . . or not. A significant portion of our last year was spent in extern-ships, rotating through various hospitals. We tended to get more experience in these few months than the many months we spent in clinic. Being familiar with the departments of PM, Diagnosis and Physical Medicine, many of us were impressed with with those departments found in real hospitals: Ob-Gyn, Gastroenterology and Oncology. . . imagine, an entire floor devoted solely to the diseases of the nail! Some the research here at PCPM was being expertly conducted by the new Chairman of Chairman of Orthopedics. Dr. William Sanner, coming from the California School where biomechanics is the Force that governs the Universe, did some remarkable things with rohadur ''magic shovels : having already had limited success in the treatment of diverticulitis and spina bifida, he has at this writing submitted a proposal seeking approval for testing in those suffering from cryptorchidism. The Podocardiology Department has recently announced that the Electrodynagram has already proved it- self useful in the diagnosing of myo-metatarsal infarction (MMI) of the second metatarsal. News the implications of which are almost endless! Dr. Lemont, no newcomer to Podiatric Research, is soon to publish the results of two projects he recently completed: He reported that he can completely cure uncompensated rearfoot varus with an IM injection of a modified steroid cocktail composed of Icc Kenalog 40, 2cc of Dewars Scotch whisky and 3cc of latex. It's been dubbed Harvey's Bristol Cream Cocktail , and should receive FDA approval by the end of '84. Also, a small group working under Dr. Lemont's guidance have developed a MIS procedure for Morton's neuroma... implantation of a tiny nuclear warhead in the affected interspace. Thus far, the incidence of recurrance of the lesion has been 0% but, unfortunately, all the subjects have been mysteriously lost to follow-up. Relatcdly, a new nail procedure has been described by Dr. Orowitz and is called the A and N. . . avulsion and nuclear destruction of the nail matrix. Alas, the total amount of destruction thus far has proven difficult to contain. He is, however, awaiting NRC approval for this procedure, the indications for which are similar for the outmoded P A. The portion of the fourth year actually spent at PCPM was pretty much as we had expected: dumping all the paperwork onto our third years, filing in line for the countless pre-ops, and dodging PM charts as we perched in the smoking lounge (or the elevator lobby in a previous life). A nice change was spending afternoons in clinic instead of sitting in some boring lecture. Of course, being our usual selves, this didn't satisfy us either and then we had something else to bitch about. I guess you could say that on Wednesday afternoons. . . we finally got out Embreeville handouts! Our only classes were Practice Management, Practice Radiology, and Practice-On The-Cadavers-Before-We-Turn-You-Loose... speaking of which, why did we have to take the practical even if we didn't take the course?? Why didn't we get the choice of taking the reverse option. . . that is, to take the course without the practical. Some things never change! With all our visiting and bobbing for that special program out of the way, it's hard to imagine that we're almost through spending four years together. Hopefully, we've learned enough to practice if that Residency or Preceptor-ship hasn't come through. There are some of us who will continue to be students (hopefully not another fourth year at PCPM), whether it be on to Law School (Forensic Podiatry), Medical School (Podiatric Interns), or Dental School (for those of us who still keep in touch with Skrypeck and Felbeck) to treat the pronatory deformities of the temporomandibular joint. With National Boards Part II behind us, graduation upon us, we look at what lies before us: whether we end up in solo practice, partnership, or... prison, hopefully some day we can all look back fondly at our years here at PCPM. Yes, on some occasion in the future we'll sit down, crack a bottle, crack open this book, and crack a smile. Good Luck, Class of 1984... and thanks for the memories!