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

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caster for ESPN. Wc thought wc were going to win an argument with Dr. Assalita in Intro, to Pod. Jonathan was crying but putting up a good fight. But wait. Hosey may have blown it by getting into it. Andy Karpf interjected. After all. lunch is my favorite class. Dr. Pitkow taught us neurophysiology during the last half of the football season. This was capped off by his tenth annual Post Supcrbowl Examination . The date for this exam increased the spread on our test grades. Our attempted pass was stopped by his beta-blockers. “Biomagic began with Dr. Sanner. At first wc were spinning index cards on pencils and then wc were turning our fingers into Midtarsal Joint axes. Finally, we were given questions like....... When the STJ is pronated in midstancc on an incline of 45° and viewed from the frontal plane, the MTJ is then: A. maximally pronated B. supinating C. supinated D. none of the above E. a few of the above F. most of the above, including choice D In Lower Extremity Anatomy. Dr. Hirsch reaffirmed Darwin’s theory of natural selection. He kept the herd healthy by clipping off the weak. FIc gave us diagrams and labelled pictures on his tests. These were of thing that could have very well been a wedge of cheese, an Egyptian pyramid, a chewed piece of bubble gum or maybe a lateral cuneiform. After his exams, our once rational, diplomatic class transformed into an angry mob (like straight from a horror movie), complete with pitchforks, wooden stakes and burning torches out for blood. Biochemistry started out on a dark, cold winter morning. Early in the day the class was awakened by this big girl asking. Where's ma' notes? Emma June would traipse down the aisle, go to her row and use Tim Lynch’s body as an apical axis guide to get into her lecture scat. When she finally stopped coming to classes. Gina Carlo and Russ Pctranto stuck a picture of her to her desk so that she was still with us. not in body, but in soul. Mike Obrecht came to class with a knapsack that was bigger than Rodney Dangcrfield's golf bag in C'addyshack. He must have had his bone box in it at all times. When he came to school, he looked like Neil Armstrong on a 10 speed.

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THE YEARS 1984 THROUGH 1988 ... AS WE SAW IT. Subject: The History Of The Class Place: Philadelphia, PA Setting: P.C.P.M. FIRST YEAR At orientation, the first assembly of white coats takes place. No one knew each other or who would eventually become their best friend. Some of us met during SARP and learned how to shade in the computer card. In the beginning we were 130 strong. First trimester was like boot camp with four exams on every other Friday This only left us four weekends to go to the shore. Our routine was simple: 1. Don’t study for the first week at all. 2. Beginning week 2, study Neuroanatomy Sunday through Wednesday. 3. Study Histology and Gross Anatomy on Thursday, and read Embryology twenty minutes before bedtime. We were warned about Ncuroanatomy ahead of time by our forebearers. In Neuro. the words decussate , laminate , pedunculate , caudate , and “masterbate all became indistinguishable. The only words we all became familiar with was SLIMMER SCHOOL . This particular word motivated us to work much harder so that we would never see it. For Embryology, we had Gibley’s Believe It Or Not . He was the first to discover the testicular problem we have here at PCPM. Now. we might not use the information learned in Embryology everyday, but we sure try to use our “JEWELS as often as possible. We have him to thank for that In cadaver lab, the bodies were intimidating from day one. Some of our classmates wore plastic aprons, some wore white coals, and one in particular wore a Mr. Goodwrench blue jumpsuit. (Bret, arc you going to check the oil and transmission fluid on your cadaver?) Mans wore gowns, gloves and even masks. One wondered if it was because of the formalin or because Ken Freedman was coming down to lab with either Mono. Strep, Pneumonia. Conjunctivitis or hepatitis. While we were being challenged by Dr Boyd in lab. he was being challenged on the 3rd floor by Jim Kuhn at “Donkey Kong”! Wc soon went to our assigned seats. The second row was a group of inquisitive, loud, hand-raising, debating and very cooperative guys. When lecturers told jokes, the back row did their walrus impersonations as taught by Steve Kushncr. In the back, Katrina would be sleeping on her arm when she wasn't solving Sanner's take-home quiz for the whole class. She is not the most famous narcoleptic in our class though. Many suffered from Gergen's disease” Car-rozzino and Tcsch kept right on talking through lectures like thc were sports

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One funny thing about our first year was that you knew you would hear the word “Max” about 4 times a day First, for the lights. Second, for the slide projector. Third, for the overhead. Fourth, just because we felt like it. SECOND YEAR Dr Jacob's Pharmacology class was geared for the early birds. God help anyone who didn’t show up. or worse, came in through one of the side doors. Our first thought was that perhaps he was hiding a PDR behind his back and he didn’t want anyone to see it. lie told us we were mediocre and taught us “Shulfonamides Caushc Shtevcnsh Johnshohnsh Shyndrome”. It was during this memorable lecture that Dean and Noah received their second shower of the day. Fortunately, they were the only ones, for anyone else who attended sat in the back three rows. In Pharm lab we got to use the polygraphs from Physio This time, we got to shake them upside down to get the loose rats out of them. In Microbiology we learned the importance of being quiet in class. If you were caught whispering while Dr. Abramson was lecturing, you risked having your head dunked in “foul smelling, viscous, rice-water diarrhea . When he got mad, he would pound the podium so hard you thought his plaque on the fifth floor would fall off the wall. We learned alot in micro, but of all the organisms wc discovered, none were more fascinating than B. tcrleckvi. This was an anthropo philic, commensile, non-motile organism with a glycocalyx. On Sabouraud dextrose agar, this particular species tended to lecture on lipopolysaccharides. The only antibiotic effective against this organism was of course Axlercillin (Axlin®). Dr. Abramson was funny but Bo was alot “cilia”. In Pathology though. Dr. Arden only lectured to Frank Mole. We fell a bit miffed. Okay, the seven of us felt a bit miffed. Maybe wc should have painted open-eyes on his eyelids. Joe LaConte rescheduled every final we had with Dr “Aaaaden”. Dr. Skarinski lectured about Ecntesteenal Mookosa. Vaskoollitis. and Knotmeg Iccver. She was the Mrs. Gorbachov of the Pathology world Fortunately, Vera was there to transcribe those lectures. Dr. Wcissman and Big Al showed us the importance of taking and failing a Radiology final twice in a row. Dr. Wcissman is the author of Radiology of the Foot. This book, wc were told, was the foundation that Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie (.uric used in order to better understand radiology. From our tests wc