University of Kansas School of Medicine - Jayhawker MD Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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lllllllllllllll Qmewmcf We hope in the years to come, while looking back over the past and recalling our search for Knowledge, that this book will bring to each ot you a recollection ot your trials and tribulations through- out medical school. y lt has been our sincere desire to portray within these pages the many events ot the past, and may , we always strive to understand and serve our tel- lowman. We hope this- -Annual will bring back memories oi the humorous aswell as the serious side of the years ot '46 and '47. l STAFF

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WWW! ,,, t' HE KANSAS STATE LEGISLATURE passed an act in 1864 providing for a state university which was to include a school of medicine. The University of Kansas was opened at Lawrence in 1866. The school of medicine, offering two years of medical instruction, was organized in 1899. Dr. Simeon B. Bell, in 1900, donated approximately five acres of land in Rosedale fnow Kansas City, Kansasl, and money for a total value of 580,000 to the University of Kansas to build and equip an institution to be called the Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial Hospital, in memory of his wife. ln 1905 three proprietory medical schools, -the Kansas City Medical College and the Medicochirurgical College of Kansas City, Missouri, and the College of Physicians and.Surgeons of Kansas City, Kansas-were merged with the University- of Kansas Medical School. A four-year medical course was then offered under the direction of the University of Kansas. ln 1913 the Kansas Medical College of Topeka, Kansas, was also merged with the University of Kansas School of Medicine. The first buildings, provided by Dr. Bell, were erected on the land in Rosedale and were occupied by the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Ianuary, 1907. A new hospital costing 550,000 was erected in 1913. A dispensary was added to the plant in 1916. Through a combination of gifts from alumni and friends of the School of Medicine, appropriation from the state and from Kansas City, Kansas a new site of fifteen acres, situated about one mile south of the old location was purchased in 1920. The first unit of a hospital was completed on the new site in 1924. The nurses' home and a ward building J were completed in 1929. Since 1934 seven new buildings have been added. In 1934 the Board of Regents renamed the collective buildings The University of Kan- sas Hospitals. Bell Memorial Hospital was retained in parenthesis. The first buildings erect- ed on the land donated by Dr. Bell are called .the Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial Hospital, and now serve as the tuberculosis and the psychiatric units of the hospital. . CLINICAL RESOURCES . The University of Kansas Hospitals have a bed capacity of 400, including 20 bassinets. lt is approved by the Ameri- can College of Surgeons and the American Hospital Association. ln 1944 the daily average number of patients was 308. The hospitals are equipped to care for medical, surgical, pediatric, obstetrical, gynecological, orthopedic, psychiatric, ancl tuberculosis patientsq ' The Children's Pavilion, recently occupied, has a capacity of 100 beds, including an isolation unit for contagious disease. 1 The Hixon Laboratory for Medical Research is a new modern brick building that is excellently equipped to provide research opportunities for the hospital staff as well as members of the medical school faculty and of the student body. ltalso provides facilities for advanced study in the laboratory and clinical sciences. The third floor, beautifully furnished, provides a large classroom and includes an excellent library of medical history and museum of medical art. The Clinic Building is a new modern four story brick building. This unit provides a nutrition clinic, drug room, laboratory, lecture room, waiting room and consultation rooms, examining rooms, a dental clinic, social service rooms and diagnostic rooms. The entire ground floor of this building is occupied by the dietary department, offices, dining rooms, kitchens, storeroom and ice boxes. The Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial Hospital is the tuberculosis and psychiatric division of this plant. It represents a small unit of 60 beds, quartered in the old dispensary building that has been recently remodeled. .l

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70 Semcm mf '47 When you come to the end of the struggle for self and the world makes you king for a day, lust go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that guy has to say. A lt isn't your father, your mother or wife whose judgement upon you must pass, The fellow whose verdict means most in your life is the guy who looks back from the glass. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, for he's with you clear to the end, , And you'Ve passed your most difficult' and dangerous task if the guy in the glass is your friend. i Yes, you may be lack Horner and chisel a plum, and think you're a wonderful guy. But the guy in the glass says you're only a bum if you can't look him straight in the eye. You may fool most of the people in your pathway of life and get pats on the back as you pass, y But your final reward will loe heartaches and tears if you've cheated the guy in the glass. The courage We desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live Manfully - Carlyle.