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

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Je le pansay, Dieu Ie guarif I +rea+ed him, bu+ God cured him Par6

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Ambroise fpard

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'ln my end is my beginning . . . T. S. Eliof Once more on fhis page are we happily mef To fashion wifh words, and complefe fhe quarfef, The bapfismal verse of +he pracfifioners new Re.leased on fhe world in I962. Our schooling al' an end, we may now begin fo learn For ours is fhe prize, fhe fifle, 'lnferne' Buf fhis, as Rome, was nol' builf overnighf For fhere is more fo seeing fhan fhe having of sighf. Medicine is our goal, as an Arf and a Science Alfhough we approach wifh varied appliance: For some feel fhaf all may be cured wifh fhe Knife While fo ofhers fhe Word is fhe end fo fhe Sfrife. Some will welcome fhe wee bairn fo fhis world Ofhers will fend him when his banners are furled. Whafever fhe course for which we are sef As fhe apple of man or misforfune's pef If will be of greaf pleasure fo confemplafe The heroic sfruggle engaged in '58. The inifial fhree years, sef in fhis mefre ln previous fomes awaifs fhe reader. To describe fhis year is a comparable fask To fhaf of fhe blind men who 'Whaf is an elephanf' were asked. To commence fhe year some enjoyed fheir elecfive. Of Surgery and Medicine mosf were selecfive Yef some in New York by caf-brains were harried While ofhers decided fo go and gef married. Pediafricsvwas nexf, al' Children's or Meyer, The sfudy of disease, from dam or sire Buf mosf glorious fo behold, oh vision fair, ls fhe iniecfed fonsil, fhe runny nare. Diagnosfic Clinic was fhe Senior's nexf fare Where miracles are wroughf by fhe Welfare Sfafe. The Collagen disease, or so we are fold ls close approaching fhe common cold. Episfaxis, TB prophylaxis, coughs, colds, Rales, On such did feefh fhe young medicals. Lasf year, Surgery was hold, snip and hope: Now we made use of fhe frigid sigmoidiscope If from fhe child's runny nose you would flee, You found him referred fo ENT. Buf af lasf, in one's soul, fhe creafive Surgeon was found, Sysfemafically disemboweling some unforfunafe hound. Blond or bruneffe, wifh red hair or whife Presenl' in GYN a similar sighfg The assorfed horrors of war, deafh and sin Are as nofhing fo fhe consumafe ills of women. A breech you would predicf, complicafions fearing As fhe slowing fefal hearf you seemed fo be hearing. Buf all is well, mofher and child are fine, Affer all, she was gravida fen, para nine. So wenf fhe year, such was fhe clime As we were 'Clinical Clerks' for fhe final fime. The lasf specfre of doom was fhe Nafional Boards, Affer which we cuf fhe scholasfic umbilical cords. And now we know, of fhe greaf words pronounced by man The finesf are 'l Swear By Apollo The Physician . . . ' J. W. C. '62