University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Hippocratean Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Charles L. Adams Pittshuri h. P.i. University of Pittshursih. B.S.. 1949 Pill Rlio Sigma Wik-: Shirley AUcglicny Gcncr.il Hospit.il, Pitlsburgli General Practice Richard J. Adler McKeesport, Pa. University of Pittslniruii. 15. S.. 1949 Phi Delta Epsilon Queen of Angels Ho.-ipit.il Los Angeles, Calif. [84

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ticket. The AMA hrcatlicd ,iL;,nn .ind Harry Truman complimented himself tor not throwing monkey wrenches into governmental machinery. All the non-vets in the class who had previously deluded themselves into thinking they wouldn ' t be called were shocked back into sanity by the grim draft calls all about them, .md there were several applications for commissions. Yes. there were changes. But much was the same too. We still came to .ittention, only on Tuesd.iy mornings this ye.ir. And Tom Gregg and George Gerneth still were late. Many really started the senior work in the summer by taking their 10-day OB sentences then, preferring to keep the rest of the year as pileasant as possible. One can sleep to the lull.iby of laundry carts and packing crates only so long, and it doesn ' t take few days to learn to hold sutures in the line of the cut. Doctor, Senior curriculum must have been designed by a Normandy veter.m; on Fridays all it was was hedge-hopping. First to the Chief Chef , t the North Side White Tower for those meaty bony problems, then a short one-half hour flight to either Saint Francis or Mercy for things neurological. After lunch all scattered to points distant for regular clinics. How did they ever do it without automobiles? Like all others, senior year had its hilarity too: Remember Ed Jew (hite for class that day) plastered against the door outside radiology furiously taking notes, and almost bowled over when Dr. Grier stepped out? He wouldn ' t come in either. (It ' s just as well; he would have been the only one taking notes. Who ever will forget that day of Dr. C. R. Schaefer ' s lecture when a bright, young, bouncing lad opened the door, bounded in and said, Mind if I listen? Are you a doctor? said Dr. Schaefcr. No, but I ' m .going to do a circumcision in thirty minutes. Sorry, this lecture ' s for doctors only. Our class was once highly honored. On January 22 we were visited by The Man in the White Suit, much to our surprise, but not our amazement. Clinics in the afternoon were where we really learned medicine and one of the most basic lessons came home to Ann Stitt and Merv Stewart — Be sure your patient understands you. Each gave a patient a urine sample bottle with the instruction to bring back some of your water. And that ' s exactly what they got! Saturday morning had something new; Question Man Brady held forth from 8:30 to 10 with always a stimulating clinic and an answer to the extreme psycho- somaticists. But he did a cruel thing the day he quipped about Bob Milligan, Somebody throw him a pillow, please. That shock broke up a four-year sleep. Surgery was followed by anesthesiology, which certainly turned out to be a well named and effective course. After the somnolence had passed. Dr. Maclachlan took over with his inspiring clinics in internal medicine. Never reluctant to put forth his ideals, seasoning his discourses with many memories of past, harder years, he has been one of the prime molders of physicians here. We all arc better for his influence. As the days began to lengthen ,ind our spirits slacken as that last turn came into view, one honor came to us out of no virtue on our part; but we all are proud anyway to be the first senior class to have heard the Annual Pitt Medical Alumni Speaker. Dr. Philip Hench, Pitt graduate of the class of 1920, Nobel Prize winner in 1950 and certainly Pitt Medical ' s most famous living alumnus gave a most informative lecture on the status of cortisone at that time, and concluded with a ringing appeal always to be progressive and idealistic. Here was no narrowed medical scientist, but a true clinician whose perspectives are not bounded by present horizons, one who makes all Pitt Med students stand a little straighter and breathe a little deeper at mention of their Alma Mater. But as it must in all things our year drew to an end and as we look back over these highlights of our form.itive professional years we view them (in Dr. Hench ' s words) as the end of a beginning. [83]

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S. Charles Badiali New Bethlehem, Pa. Washington cr ' Jefferson, B.A., 1947; M.A.. 1949 Phi Rho Sigma Wife: Rita F. Children: Mary Lyn and Deborah leane Washington Hospital, Washington. Pa. General Practice William J. Barnes Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh, B.S., 1949 Nu Sigma Nu Class Representative. Student Medical Society, 2-3 [85]