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

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O We made efforts on the wards, as Dr. Yount suggested, as if we knew what we were doing. One of our more brilliant students, it is rumored, therefore proceeded to pass a Foley on a corpse. And more than one received phone calls from Mt. Airy. The wrath of Dr. Hutaff was felt by those who forgot to ask about Cousin Minnie's cough, and Dr. Meads had little sympathy for those who didn't do a Gram stain. Dr. Flores had wrath and no sympathy-usually felt to be characteristic of the job. An outstanding favorite of all was Graybeal's elementary dietetics, the course that no one flunks-that is, if you were present for roll-call and drank your skimmed milk like teacher said. Dr. Norfleet presented tales from the South Pacific, teaching that the differential diagnosis of hematuria and dysuria in this area includes wandering leaches. From dermatology came the impression that the body is only skin deep, and consists mostly of kodachrcme slides on which the anatomical site and the lesion is obscure. We learned of many medical entities, such as, gland trouble, leakage of the heart, spinal meningisus, bronichal trouble, side pleurisy, walkin' pneumonia, old age, itching teeth, and an obviously sick child. Our class was the first to be exposed to the rigors of radiology by Dr, Meschan with his monumental text. By the end of the course even the more fearless, including Reeves, had weakened under the salesmanship and had purchasd the book rather than face the final with- out it. The mortality rate was high anyway-to say nothing of morbidity. But that's the way it went in the junior year. Paranoia was rampant. There was an urge to recreate the defiant House Officer. Surely, the senior year would bring brighter days. It did for the most part-at least doing lab work was not the student's primary function -being johnny-on-the-spot was. Officially, it was announced that our successors would be retained for an extra quarter in the junior yearg and construction of the Medical School addition would begin. Behold! it did. Proving to all that Bowman Gray is out for the forward look, the Department of Experi- mental Medicine was established and a D. V. M. was brought in to set the M.D. experimen- talists straight. Our hats are off to Dr. Clarkson, the consultant of the year. Attitudes and personalities were not significantly altered in this period-just more firmly implanted. Senior surgery was encountered with the usual anxiety, mild and severe. However, a few completed the quarter without cerebral scarring and even considered taking a surgical residency. At any rate, the class agreed that Dr. Deaver could not possibly have held his own retractor ever. It was concluded that the satisfactory placement of such an instrument is best achieved without visualization, at arm's length, with the left hand of a right handed person, standing behind and pulling away from the surgeon. On private medicine the story spread that Dr. Sawyer had a built-in diastolic murmur in one ear and a pericardial friction rub'in the other. Between spooks in the medical OPD, the day was brightened over Curt's bitter brew tif it's good 'nough for the Redskins, it's good 'nough for youl by the applicable tales of Square-Jaws, the man in the know. OB-GYN remained the students' dilemma. The vanishing cervices, contracting uteri, and Miss Reich have taken their toll from the more patient and persistent. The nearer June, the greater the surge of political intrigue became. Indeed, it was proper, for the selection of the Man of the Year was a delicate important task. There were many worthy candidates, of course, but some troopers had been stung worse than others, and recog- nition of this was necessary to meet the needs of the traumatized. The institution of this award again depicts the forward look of Bowman Gray, for without it Dr. Lamm would have his lap full of potty troubles. - By the Spring of '58 our class had progressed satisfactorily and was proliferating rapidly with twenty-six married couples having produced seventeen children, six more were being incubated, and an unknown number were sweating it out. A four day expense-paid visit to New York City and the laboratories of Lederle and Squibb was generously provided by these companies, We are much obliged to them. Each graduating class leaves behind a personality peculiar unto itself. No class, however, completes its clinical clerkship at Baptist Hospital without an indebtedness of great magnitude to the nurses. 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