University of Utah School of Medicine - Medicine Man Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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A Publication of THE CLASS OF I952 COLLEGE OF MEDICINE . University of Utah Salt Lake City GERALD P. STEVENSON - Editor JOHN J. BATEMAN - Art JOHN B. RICHARDS - Copy ALLEN K. DONE - Copy JOHN N. HENRIE - Advertising J. RODMAN SEELY - Advertising ALLAN H. BARKER - Advertising LAWRENCE E. STEVENS - Sales JOHN C. BARNES - Sales fe- '1 MEDICINE MAN mx ff' lf, X'l!f,,!f.-'I I ,A I .XJ I , X Aj, ll, I J I v Z7- Qx XV , E14 SK X xo I Ne J ' '35 A fyff, E ' X-, ff-,f, ftiy A A ' A er- gig! if X IN' -, I .X X. , J' ' file I X C7

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Introduction It began in June, 1949. Half a hundred college students, mostly strangers, assembled together with a common goal in mind. Names were learned, acquaintances were made, and soon the bewildering unfamiliarity was gone-only the uncertainty of what lay ahead remained. Much has been written regarding life in medical school and perhaps universal to all medical students are the emotional parf oxisms of paranoia, frustration, confusion, bitterness, and on rare occasions, elation. And yet not all one's reflections upon the years spent in medical school are restricted to these somber experiences predicated upon the normal functions of the adrenal medulla. Where is the student of medicine who cannot recall with a smile some wellftimed, if unintentional, quip from a red faced colleague, the awkward delicacy of the interview with one's first female patient, or the day in surgery where one's hands were graced with five inelegant thumbs. Our experience was unique only by reason that an added stress of Hmatriculation schizo- phrenia was inflicted at the onset of the Junior year. As a result of this division, twenty-one members of the class gradu- ated in lune, 1952 and twenty-eight members in December, 1952. During our years of preceptorship, bonds of friendship have been formed that the decaying influence of time cannot destroy. For the purpose of establishing in permanent form a brief de- scription of our formative years in medicine that we may often think of those with whom we have shared so much during the past three years, this book is written. To the hope that we will always cherish the memories of medical school and strive to strengthen the ties of comradeship formed there, this book is dedicated.