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

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Medicine is unique among institutions where knowledge is transferred. Whereas is other fields the student expects to achieve mastery, in medicine we strive to establish a broad base of general principles which will apply to most deviations of human biology. The labo- rious minutia presented as 'basic science are the broad principles. and their interrelation and culmination is clinical medicine. There is one principle which makes any attempt at learning this vast science plausible, and that is the individual pursuit of ideas. All of med- icine is a series of snynapses leading to a conclusion. Doctors are individuals who are picked and trained to complete a series once it is started. The fewer un- explored questions a man leaves behind, the better physician he is, Every time he neglects the triceps reflexes, or fails to track down a patient's umild sinus trouble he compromises his effectiveness. Per- haps the idea he must pursue will be completed within his own experience, perhaps in the literature, in con- sultation, or in the laboratory: but it is the very ability to bring an idea to a conclusion that characterizes medical education, not the conclusions themselves. Y I :JP sk? 5 lf' 5' ri - . F ku- .Q-'S' . 1 L-, ..,,,.4-B -,-4 1' : ', ', PTF' H rf as I 40' A :E -- .. Q x

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ww SEATEID: Dorothy P. Lyons, Marie Grams STANDING: Emma Dunstan, Bernice E. Gittins J Hazel M. Cramer Principal Clerk T 4 Secretarial Sta -i,- SEATED: Bette Howard Cynthia Severance STANDING: Hildreth Hampshire Mrs. Watkins Gena Peavy Earlene Sullivan MISSING: Beverly Bellas Bessie Davidson

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Doing, Being