University at Buffalo School of Medicine - Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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President . . BURT STULBERG Vice-President . . BRUCE F. CONNELL Treasurer . SOLON H. GOTTLIEB Secretary . . . BARBARA .l. GARONO Student Council . . ALVIN BROWN MEDICAL CLASS Down broke over the fall sky as the Meyer and the General battalions of clinical recruits were called to reveille. This was it-a full year of clinical maneuvers on two fronts, broken up by a marathon six week bivouac at the Children's Hospital. The task forces immediately went to work-the Abo-Loeser battalion invading the urine and CBC laboratories of Grider Street, closely backed by the Maurizi-Zuazaga reservists on High Street who promptly invaded that well-known induction center, the library- later to be made famous by that noble platoon, headed by Don Sprecker which maintained possession of all the lounging chairs and retaliated all counter-attacks from decorticate librarians with music boxes. At the Meyer, however, a losing battle was fought as an embargo was placed on all medical students. Among the many losses there we will always remember Corky McLeod screaming, as he was slowly being strangled: There it is-it's been on the shelf all the time! As the battle progressed, observation posts were set up. Vic lGoldiel Panaro received the distinguished clerk's cross for his able description of operations as he managed to get close enough to the operating table to use his binoculars. His feats were closed matched, however, by Bob Shea who managed, only at gun point, the unheard of feat of threading

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a surgical needle for the assistant scrub nurse during a skin biopsy. Mechanized maneuvers continued under the leadership of General Milch, as roller skates were donned in order to keep up with the advancing front during ward rounds. Zim Zeller and Bill Zuazaga, how- ever, were soon lost behind and had to resort to a relay system in order to maintain contact. 7 t , , Between lulls in the fighting came voluminous case histories. At the Meyer, quadrupli- cates were made, one copy being presented to the head nurse who corrected it and made out the grades. Colonel Levitt held reveille each morning at 7:30. lt did not take long, however, to realize that ward rounds were watering the vegetables , that the therapeutic approach to an 80-year-old patient was to congratulate him and leave him alone , and that the most common complication in patients at this hospital was adhesions to the mattress . However, the highlight of activities came when Levitt presented Frank Fote with the bronze tongue blade for being present at morning rounds twice in succession. Attendings at the Meyer front were rare birds and it was here that Al Connette remarked that he wasn't sure but that he may have seen a few flying over Lockport. Neil Fuhr and Al Gartner, however, being more intrepid souls were sent on reconnaissance to find one in order to present their cases. At this writing they are still missing in action. Nevertheless, much was still to be learned and research flourished. Joe Genewich admitted that in his series of 50,000 routine urine exams ltaken at randoml he had tabulated l29 types of urine crystals, Gene Loeser decided to market commercially the free HCL in Wayne Greenberg's stomach, Jack Banas decided upon a residency in chess playing after being OF 1952