University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Doctor Kildare recommends Listerine, and Casey wouldn't be without his cure for headache, neuritis and neuralgia. Why, even the nurses, of that grand old heroic profession, know that if uhospital tested Pepto-Bismol can keep old Mrs. Arthur Murray going, then it's the next best thing to ground goat testicles. Our professional language has become public domain. Everyone knows about unsaturated fats, myalgia, midriff bulge, coronary and the deeply hidden cough center, Just think of all the linen handkerchiefs which concentrated stomach acid has destroyed on TV. Soon we will be using such terms as the drip, drip, drip of excess stomach acid ourselves. This is only part of the problem. The rest lies with the medical school itself. The freshman medical student, the wide-eyed, scared, formaldehyde-smelling pillar of med- icine, helps put doubt in the eyes of the public. Why? The freshman is the only class which gets a real summer vacation, uninhibited by research or suggestions to stay on. His freshman year is so busy, so loaded with work that he gives up the ways of normal people and forfeits the little joys of life such as women, drink and television. Instead, he chains himself to his 40-plus pounds of books and attempts to memorize, without fail, the origins, in- sertions, etc. . . .which he hopes will make him a famous doctor. All this time, he loses contact with people-and worst of all-with advertising. Then, on his long awaited vacation, he returns home, only to find that his friends and neighbors throw words and phrases which only a specialist like Ben Casey could handle. What's this! they say, You've never heard of the medicine which picks up 40 times its weight in excess stomach acid? Haven't you ever used the nasograph? It was invented by a doctor to test the effects of nasal decongestantsf' Reciting all the anastomoses of the scapular circulation, or spieling off that the lymph drainage of the breast is not impressive-that's not TV material. Casey'd never do that. Perhaps all this could be approached by the medical school in a positive manner. Couldn't we interrupt the closed-circuit TV shows in the medical school with ad- vertising? Perhaps we could cut some of the lectures out of the bacteriology-chemical warfare section, and add lectures on toothpaste. The pharmacology course could be modified to teach us how to write illegibly and talk on stomach acids, keeping regular, the blood concentration of speedy Alka-Seltzer, and other vital issues. A visiting nurse could give us much of the latest information on midriff bulge and proper posture. These are all things to be considered. The medical students of today need to come up-up to a Kool approach like that of Kildare's. The deans and staff must remember that it's who's up front that counts-in front of the TV, that is. Richard A. McConnaughy '63 31

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50 years hence, l'll still remember: Dr. Davenport and his cannon fthe only way to get our attention. Dr. Wi1de's '70 kilogram man and also the sodium ion in the frog pond. Dr, Miller with I.O.T.A. Clnput overload testing aidb. Dr. Moore's demonstration of random sampling of marbles. Dr. Sweet's demonstration of anesthetic explosion. Dr. Gosling's history of the rabbit woman and also the inside scoop on Queen Elizabeth I, Dr. Rosema.n's slides of how connective tissue should look put together right and how it should not look. Dr, Furstenburg's descriptive terms of apple green, anchovie paste and current jelly sputum. Dr. Duff's demonstration of how to detect pain in arthritis. Dr. Nesbit's slide of that famous fountain in Brussels. The tale told in radiology of the pretty proton princesses, the money lenders, and the peasants and serfs on Helium avenue. Dr. Evan's work in the elevator shafts. Lynn E. Dykman '63