USC School of Medicine - Asklepiad Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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In Urology we found out how easy it was to make old men howl with a simple flick of the cystoscope. Sometimes anesthesia was used. We listened in awe to the wisdom of myriads of great white fathers. We learned that even filli- forms had their followers. A stone basket, we found, was a delightful doo-dad designed specifically for pulling mucosa off of ureters. There were ample opportunities to use the cystoscope to take prying peaks into the bladder — usually after they were full of methylene blue. In Neurology the position a neurologist holds in the peck- ing order is indicated by the size of his tuning fork. Know anybody who wants to buy a 2048 tuning fork? Entertain- ment was provided by watching the residents apply Crutch- field tongs. They pulled one patient out of bed three times. About the only thing constructive that was done on the service was to leave it at the end of the four weeks. The senior Pediatric service was a horse of a different color. Yellow-green with mucus globs. The service was nice for several reasons; we were away from the gray dungeon, coffee in Childrens Hospital cafeteria was free, and every- one called us doctor. Speaking of calling people Dr. This only added to Harvey ' s paranoid delusions. It seems that when they called his name over the PA system at Childrens, people immediately started evacuating the building. Fire- stone is the code word for fire. Never to be forgotten was the three weeks spent on the clinic service; for this was the domain of Adolf Propp, supreme ruler and friend of man (but not medical students). The instruction at Childrens was excellent, and the schedule was filled with many conferences. The X-ray conference was especially liked; they turned the lights off and it was much easier to sleep. The instructors were very liberal on this service and the atmosphere was generally relaxed; Herman and Phil were even allowed to do advanced study in pediatrics on the Con tinent. OPD provided us with a practical knowledge of the general practice of medicine. Half of the class again left LACGH for this nine week service, while the less fortunate half roamed the 2nd floor of the Rock. The patients seen were of all shapes and sizes, and presented a multiplicity of problems; that is, I don ' t care if you do say it ' s all in my head Doc, I got pains. Here again we had many con- ferences and seminars- however, this time the instructors beat us at our own game. They were the ones who didn ' t show up. All in all it was a good service, and I have only one question. What is the brand name of OPD 139? Surgery proved to all that muscle fatigue is a real entity; especially to those of us who are less deft as switching the idiot stick from hand to hand and remaining out of the field. It also proved to many of us that they con make you admit on Saturday. Again the problems of fluids and elec- trolytes were presented to us. And you know what, they are still a problem! At this point it now seems appropriate that we end this rambling, disjointed discussion We have purposefully written it in a satirical vein for humors sake; but in spite of the satire we are deeply grateful to our faculty, who, true to the oath of Hippocrates, have unselfishly devoted their time and talents in helping us make the transition from laity to practicioners of medicine. With the complexities of medical education such as they are, it goes without saying that our knowledge at this point is small. Parenthetically, this means that we have obligated the remainder of our lives to the task of expanding upon this meager knowledge. Ws now, eagerly, but humbly advance to meet this obligation. Donald L. Hall Marshall D. Milton ' a £- f£ ' S THE GVr WITH T - £ Bl P- HOW ARE you eiNJOVINO- VOUR PED5 RESIPENCV?

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VITAL STATISTICS Average Age at Graduation 27 Number graduating 66 BIRTHPLACE Los Angeles 15 California (other) 13 Arizona 2 Arkansas 1 Colorado 1 Illinois 5 Kansas 2 Iowa 1 Minnesota 1 Missouri 1 Massachusetts 2 Montana 1 Oklahoma , 2 New York 8 Pennsylvania 2 South Carolina 1 Utah 1 Washington 1 Wisconsin 1 Canada 2 China 1 Germany 1 India 1 PREMEDICAL SCHOOL UCLA 23 use 6 California (Berkeley) 5 Stanford 4 Loyola 3 Brigham Young 2 California (Riverside) 2 Duke 2 Occidental 2 San Diego State 2 San Jose State 2 California (Davis) California (Santa Barbara) Drake Florida Southern Howard Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Patna Science College (India) Pepperdine Pomona Univ. of the South Wheaton Whittier DEGREES A.B 29 B.S - 9 M.A 2 M.S ■ Ph. D 4 MARITAL STATUS Single 25 Married ' Children 59 FRATERNITIES Phi Chi 21 Nu Sigma Nu ' ' Phi Delta Epsilon 14 Phi Rho Sigma