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

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Look out, Dad. you ' ll break my back learn only the important SURGERY Overwhelming is the only word that can describe the amount of material that we assimilated from more than twelve courses in surgery and the surgical subspecialties. Everything from the early diagnosis of a patient in shock, the treatment of a felon, to the spelling and technique of a myringotomy (Is this spelled correctly, House?), were interpreted, cate- gorized, and recorded in 72 different computers, each with his own personality. In obstetrics the lecture that drew the most attentive audience was the final one on contraceptive devices. Let ' s face it guys, the rhythm method is still best, i.e. be nice but be careful. Ah, yes, anesthesia really puts patients to sleep. Half of us were asleep 5 minutes after lecture started. There were many other courses, which were both good and bad. One reassurance to Dr. C. J. Berne, Chairman of the Department of Surgery — Our reason for not sitting in the front rows was not because of a gulf of knowledge that may have existed between yourself and us, but rather a matter of habit. With professors like yourself and the others who taught us that gulf will soon be crossed.

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Dng the autopsies, biopsies and current events? Moke your own caption! PATHOLOGY Wasn ' t it amazing how the 60-yeai-old female with congestive heart failure whose microscopic slides we reviewed on Monday evening always turned out to be a 49- ' year-old male who died of an Ml, on Tuesday morning when Dr. Peters reviewed the slides. You could hove sworn that the mosserated piece of tissue with the sloughed mucosa was vagina. We only come as close to those diagnosis as we did to answering Dr. Kuzma ' s questions. Traumatic as some of his questions were, we knew we could always expect to discuss current events while Dr. Kuzma was doing the autopsy. Quite a coincidence that nobody ever knew whose turn it was to run the bowel. Then there were all the liver biopsies that you read with Dr. Peters. Never did get one of them correct. All kidding aside, the three weeks we spent on the pathology clerkship proved to be a valuable aid as nearly half of us took the Pathology National Boards in June. 73

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SURVEYOR DISEASE Symptoms, signs, diagnosis, differential, treatment, prognosis, and pathology were the different acts in that great color spectacular, Survey of Disease or Learn only the Important Material . Leadmg lady was Dr. Helen Martin whose performances m the Kidney and Endocrinology sections were as perplexing as her questions on the final exam. Dr. Reynolds portrayed the young chemist who tried to devise a way for establish- ing how much fluid needed to be replaced in a patient attacked by the arch villain, Laberror. Dr. Rapaport ' s performance in Hematology was s o outstanding he was given a Golden Apple Award by the Academy of Junior Students. Humor was provided by Doctors Horowitz, Rossof, and Haverback as they discussed the different forms of pancreatic cysts. Assistant to arch villian Laberror was Dr. Bethune, who was always hissed as he came on stage. However, he was unaffected as he always said Ah, that is music to my ears. The supporting cast was outstanding and too long to mention individually. Doctors Nelson, Redeker, and Peters, however, deserve special mention for their outstanding performances in the other sections. Don ' t miss Survey of Disease or Learn only the Important Material and when you see it try to figure out the important material. We couldn ' t. And o pa edocyst does nol ho material Anesthesiology lecturi 75