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

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nd words, sir? Why they have served the :)hysician no less sweetly than the poet permitting each to murmur o pleasing ableon what IS unknown. Get your godomn foot off my cho . . . of humor OK. Now who ' s the stone? ■ guy that painted polka-dots on my blarney Now — at this point our project was sobotaged but we did manage to get the room temperature. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMBA!! No I still think your boots are offensive.

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F , f T The physician himself is now being examined rather provocatively not only in the novel, on the hypnotic T.V., but in the modern fi lm. Only a decade ago, as a dogtrot person- age without surname, the doctor entered some small chapter, serial of a 15 minute soap-opera, or interposed film scene to pronounce an actor dead or alive, then van- ished without comment. Not only has he now been given a longer speaking part, but has even become an acceptable hero. The artist on behalf of society sees him now as he once did the picaroon, the magician, the cowboy, the master jewel-thief, the inter- national spy, the aristocrat-detective— namely, the symbol of the contemporary jack-of- all trades, with the usual special emphasis on the chief trade of times. He is now interesting the world ' s greatest film directors: David Lean (Doctor Zhivago), Frederico Fellini (Juliette of the Spirits), and Akira Kurasawa (Redbeard), not to mention several others (Wild Strawberries of Bergman, on a retired physician, etc.). Modern artists love the use of a mysterious symbolic illness in analyzing contemporary society. And no fitter witness than the physician to explore it. Admittedly, such doctor-heroes are only inventions, squeezed out of the fictive imaginations of controversial artists; yet these film directors are the supreme artists of our time, oligarchs of taste, of craftsmanship, and thought, with telling philosophic insights— true Bellerophons yet keeping a firm grip on Pegasus. As it happens, their views on physicians are intriguing. ...and The following series of pages examines the diverse personalities of the physician. Certain figures have been selected to suggest the mood of the profession we have chosen for ourselves as seen by the members of another profession, the modern cinema. v 42