UNC School of Medicine - Tarhealer Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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PEARLS DAY Janet Fischer, M.D. We tend to lose sight of the importance of individual medical care. BE THE PATIENT’S ADVO- CATE. Consider the patient before recommending re- search protocol. Roy C. Orlando, M.D. Think, “Father — Mother — Sister — Brother”. “Father — Mother — Sister — Brother” is a self- test to remind us that caring for the patient requires caring about the patient. We are after all, but a single human family. Fred Sparling, M.D. Don’t be afraid to take diagnostic and therapeutic risks, but try to protect patients from un- necessary risks. Use your common sense as well as your awesome fund of knowl- edge. Henry Lesesne, M.D DRAGOON DISEASE. Cor stipation can cause mood an personality changes in the e derly (or anybody). So, re member the DRAGOON - the meanest animal in tb world — he has a Dragon’ head on one end, and Dragon’s head on the othe . . . that is what makes him sc o-o mean! Fortunately Dragoon Disease can b treated — enemas, then Ion term fiber and water. Robert Croom, M.D. Pearl for practicing, living, and lov ing in these troubled times You cannot help every patier you will encounter. You cai do only what you can do, am sometimes you cannot d that. Do not dwell on failure c in self recrimination. You mus remember your mistakes am those of others to avoid re peating them in the future Minimize what you leave t chance. You do not have t: run Chi Square on commoi sense. You can never hav too many eagles. 52

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ACTIVITIES Family Practice Interest Group Coordinators: Andrew Lim, Steve Parker, Edwin Scott FAX Student Research Journal Coordinators: Bob Cook, Sarah Klemmer, Marsden McGuire Geriaction Coordinators: Richard Daw, Bill deAraujo, John Wood International Health Forum Coordinators: Kim Fox, Gary Gartner, Nancy Stoudt Physicians for Social Responsibility Coordinator: Rob Berkenblit Student Health Action Committee Coordinators: Brad Brechtelsbauer, Ginny White, Todd Cowdery Students Teaching Early Prevention Coordinators: John Barkley, Kelly Victory Women in Medicine Coordinators: Teresa Anderson, Catherine Gordon Educational Policy Committee, Student Representatives Merle Miller Eugene Radford Richard Daw Kirsten Gross Laura Huber Nutter Ed Wrenn Committee to Evaluate Fourth Year Curriculum, Student Representatives Lisa Cooper Robert Ehinger Patricia Gerr James Mock Student Faculty Advisory Committee, Student Representatives Karen Beliles Molly Froelich Robert Hart Merle Miller Richard Padgett Jennifer Ringstad Sissel Topple Ben Sutker Laurel Leslie James Mock Art Payne Sam Sockwell Virginia White Raynor Casey Subcommittee to Evaluate Medical Students, Student Representative Chuck Scheil Academic Assistance, Student Representatives Beverly Lessesne Mary Skrzynski

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aul Biggers, M.D. The most nportant common retro- ochlear problem is acoustic euroma. This tumor is said to xist in 3% of the population hen autopsied specimens re studied carefully. Early etection is important in order ) preserve critical neurologi- al function. “Unilateral loss in earing and tinnitus should ng our diagnostic bell.” ames Bryan, M.D. How to urvive as a clinician? Take are of yourself so you can are for your patients. Have a ack door to the clinic. Have a sanctuary” in time or place ' ithout a beeper. Keep your atients moving. Be able to all for help. Enlist the family, urse and patient in the care, ay particular attention to the ubjective, and give relief, eep medications simple, eneric and remember, your ovenant is with the patient, ight, fight, fight. Robert Berger, M.D. The next time you see an athlete, musician, or ballerina do something requiring super- human contortions of their musculoskeletal system, re- member that they are able to do these things because they most likely have collagen vascular disease: Ehlers- Danlos or Marfan’s Syn- dromes. Jeffry J. Andresen, M.D. Reading to one another can unite us in unfettered reverie. The intimacy of shared im- aginative freedom transforms in valuable ways our senses of worth, of safety, and of being understood. Don’t im- poverish your life by failing to have someone you hold dear read to you. Sweet dreams! 53