University of Texas Health Science Center - IATRO Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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A EULOGY TO DEAN WEBBER Thanks for listening To our words And directing them To their purpose. You were the best To find a way That all could share; And each could bear The truth In open conversation Where the chips would fall Without reproach To reveal The nature of the problem And its solution For the better of us all. But there is one word Left unsaid In our structured manly world, We loved you. Rest in peace, Your work is done, And ours has just begun. To bid your will, We commit to our being To pursue the course You have set for us. Farewell. Frank G. Moody, MD On behalf of the students at the UT Medical School, members of the student senate commemorate the memory of Dean Frank Webber by displaying a plaque in his honor. The students, pictured from left to right with Mrs. Frank Webber are Rosemary Buckle, Bill Davis, and Wesley Wylie. The plaque is now hanging in the Medical School lobby, a main gathering place for students. Dedication 5

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DEDICATION GC. Frank Webber, MD 6 October 1934 — 12 December 1985 C. Frank Webber, MD, earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A M University in 1957 and a medical degree from UTMB-Galveston in 1960. He completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, in 1962. Dr. Webber then entered the military and served as Flight Surgeon XVIII Airborne Corps, stationed at Fort Bragg, NC, from 1962 to 1964. In 1964, he and his family ares: medical education. returned to Texas, where he began private practice in Houston. He became a clinical associate professor in Family Practice at UTMSH in 1974, and the following year, he assumed the duties of Acting Chairman of | the Department of Family Practice. In 1977, he gave up his solo practice to become Professor and Chair- man of the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at UTMSH as well as Adjunct Pro- fessor of Family Practice at Baylor College of Medicine. He became Director of the Ambulatory Care pro- gram at UTMSH in 1980. In 1982, Dr. Webber became Assistant Dean for Community Affairs at UTMSH as well as a Consultant in Family Practice to the Department of Internal Medicine at the UT Cancer Center. He became Vice President for Health Affairs and Senior Executive Associate at UTMSH in 1985, and that July, he assumed the Deanship of the UT Medical School at Houston, a position which he held until his untimely death from a heart-related illness on 12 December 1985. In addition to his many academic responsibilities, Dean Webber was also Harris County Medical Society President in 1980, and he served on numerous phe in the Texas Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the emorial Hospital rt Rabid in Houston. Dean Webber was a dynamic individual with a distinct dedication to He is sorely missed by both students and faculty.

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RELIGIOUS MEDICINE AND THE ORIGIN OF THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH OATH | swear, by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and god- desses, making them my witnesses, that | will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers of male lineage and to teach them this art — without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else. ! will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; | will keep them from harm and injustice. ! will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will | make a suggestion to this ef- fect. Similarly, | will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness | will guard my life and my art. ! will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work. Whatever houses | may visit, | will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves. What | may see or hear in the course of the treat- ment or even outside of the treatment in regard to My the life of men, on which no account one must lz spread abroad, | will keep to myself such things == 2 shameful to be spoken about. Statue of Asclepius found in Athens If | fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be Religion satisfies a perpetual desire to explain and granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored give meaning to the unknown. It would, therefore, with fame among all men for all time to come; if | appear that religious medicine (ie., supplications to transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of | the gods for cures) developed as a natural outgrowth all this be my lot. of ancient religious dogma. (Edelstein, p. 6) 6 Hippocratic Oath