University of Southern California School of Dentistry - El Molaro (Los Angeles, CA)

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Jurisprudence In the case of Vernon S. Cray vs. Senior Class, USC School of Dentistry, 59 Cal. App 477, 210 P 975. The plaintiff charged the defendants with gross disinterest and excessive sleeping accompanied by unprofessional conduct in class attendance. The defendants based their defense on res ipsa loquitur. The ruling favored defendants, the plaintiff passing everyone in the course and giving them a discount on malpractice insurance. In the years to come we ' ll all appreciate the advice given on partnerships, associateships, and friendships (not to mention the lessons learned on early American history). And naturall the government set up this pohcy Nutrition DIET FOR A DENTAL STUDENT; Begin the day with a glass of orange juice and a multiple vitamin capsule prior to falling out of bed and crawling into your clothes. 6:45 a.m., one candy bar for quick energy; 7:05 a.m., one liter of oxygen for serious anoxia, along with a cup of machine c offee; 7:15 a.m., trip to Theresa ' s for French toast cooked Philippine style, with chili powder mixed in grease; 8:55 a.m., black coffee; 9:55 a.m., black coffee; 10:55 a.m., black coffee; 12:00 noon, settle down in chair in lounge . . . open brown bag, eat nutritious lunch of two pieces of rye krisp with poly unsaturated margarine, hard boiled egg with iodized salt, one large passion fruit, one-half cup of unsalted Yogurt. Later in the day you discover you have lost 35 mg of sodium chloride ion by taking an Operative Clinic . . . spend another few calories and some more salt in traveling to the 901 .. . intake, five salted beers! Return to clinic to clean up the mess eating one hot pepper on the way. After putting equipment in the locker, you head back to the 901 to get saturated because you have discovered your Iodine number is low. Forget about dinner, it ' s too late! DR. MARCEL NIMNI . . . Man of Distinction Public Heaitfi The problems of aging occur as we get older . . . The mean, the median and the mode have the same value as long as people are symmetrical . . . Didn ' t that just take the rag off the bush . . . Square the deviation and all the negative values become positive, and then we multiply the squared deviation times the number of children, then we add this column and divide by the number of children to get the average squared deviation, and then we take the square root of this number ... A headache is an ache in the head . . . There is a dearth . . . This was Public Health Dentistry — a course without a compass; one we ' re glad is behind us! 49

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Oral Surgery Oral Surgery is systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body temperature, pulse rate, complete medical history, allergies, contraindications, medications being taken {look them up in the PDR), cleaning instruments and aspirator bottles. Oh yes, occasionally we even get to take some teeth out! Don ' t knock it till you try it Commander — one part Schweppes, one part ethanol . . . Now, drop the cyanide capsule Isten for bubbles to know I was in a vessel?

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