Wake Forest School of Medicine - Gray Matter Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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IU rl II .. NIORTI-I CARQLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL SCI-IDOL UF NURSING

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and its value to mankind, not through the few hot-shots of each medical generation. but through the hundreds. thousands, millions of unknown physi- cians who have answered the anguished cries of stricken humans, from the caves of the Paleozoic Age to the tenements of the Atomic. Across the ages we reach a hand to these, our fellow-physicians, who, each one, has taken the mass of medical knowledge, added to it, pruned it a little, and then passed it on to his successors-to us. It has been said that the present is but tl razor's edge between the future and the past, XVe hover upon that edge, and this book is a chronicle of that thin space. It is also an accounting to those uncounted, unsung, unknown physicians who have saved for us the facts, arts, and most important the ideals of medicine. For you we have tried to show how on this razor's edge of 1948 the legacy of medicine which you saved for us is now passed on to those who would follow in your footsteps. This is the chronicle of medical education, flllllll Dfllllflif 19-48. At present we believe it to be as progressive as the best. In a decade it will be a standard method of education. In twenty-five years it will be an amusing memory. In a century it will be an historical relic. But, for today, here is medical school-its trials, its long hours, its thick texts, its sleepless nights, its sights, smells, sounds, hopes, fears. ideals. The ,-in Lflllgtl 19-181 , IL ' yi- if ' Q N , ,, .- 'EL , , V- E 1 4- D, ' 9 A