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

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Anderson. L R Anderson, Balister N S Amaya M I Cavallo, M J Chapman. S J bauer Deese. M Cummings C Davison. R J Freund. D M Garside Jr. W B Gartner, G S Hudgens. S S Class o ! Hubbert L.K Landes. D A Kverneland Jr. K Lalor. A W Topple. S.K Townsend III. M f. Traynor, A M Treece, P C Vernon, M S Wagner. D i Wood, T A 1 Yandie D F 72

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SRO in 105 Berryhill “What? No break?! I want my 10 minute break!” A Three Part Essay On Language I. Introduction Berryhill Hall at 7:59 had the usual pre-class white noise, while caffeine slow clawed its way into 160 sleep deprived mind. At 8 o ' clock sharp, the pathologi entered the lecture hall, strode boldly up to the podium, adjusted his glasses ar stared at us with such contempt it made our barely circulating blood pause ar turn a degree colder. “Let us begin” he said. “You’re an unseemly looking grou but let ' s see if we can learn something anyway . . .” he looked distastefully fro above his neat bow tie and white lab coat, down his long thin nose through h round John Lennon glasses, at my beard, long hair and tie-dyed shirt. “The top today is caaaancer he said, pausing on the word cancer to show proper respe for so holy a topic. “A fourth of you will die of it, and its nice to know how you’i ' going to go, so pay attention.” He seemed to enjoy that last thought just a littli May I have the first slide please” he said and a picture of jumbled cells lif people packed into a VW bug flashed onto the screen. As if pointing out the ve: culmination of a life’s work, he made a sublime sweep of his arm at the tf brightly colored image and announced “This lesion, ladies and gentlemen, incompatible with the condition known as life. Notice the epithelium — breai taking, isn’t it? What do you call this type of cancer? This example is compatib with a diagnosis of moderately well differentiated adenocarcinoma of the pro: tate.” A few guys shifted nervously from side to side in their chairs. Once glance genitalward for a moment. “Notice the mitotic figure, the cytoplasmic bridge and the anaplastic, dysplastic and morphologic changes, all typical of this di: ease. The basement membrane is here . . He clicked the slide changer ar continued on his journey down the glands of the prostate to show the inner se rets of the cellular basis of death itself. “This is the artwork of God!”, he began tj warm up, “and if you’ve got to die, you might as well have a beautiful lesion . . Ah, a religious man, I thought. Eventually lecture ended and it was time for me 1 go to work at the Health Sciences Library. My job involved helping people in th computer lab. [ II. The Meaning of Words “Ready to get out of here Traveller?” I asked my computer hacking friend as relieved him at the desk. “It’s all yours and I don’t envy you a bit, pal ” h chuckled. Some guy with a turban on tried to grab him, but Traveller just pointe 74