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

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CC8:PI CHIEF COMPLAINT: Well, Doctor, it all began several years ago when I de- veloped this uncontrollable urge to go to medical school: PRESENT ILLNESS: This 26 year old fplus or minusj medical student was ad- mitted to the Bowman Gray School of Medicine approximately four years ago at which time he for shej was complain- ing of a considerable lack of medical knowledge compensated only by an al- most pathologic desire to correct the situation ovemight. The disease had a rather insidious onset several years prior to admission but reached an acute crisis early in October of 1956 as he sat listen- 1 to some stranger describe how painless the cure really was. The ubiquitous financial situation, varying from the very rich to the very poor, made the prospects of institutionalization a rather questionable point. The patient lists a number of things that may have pre- cipitated the onset of the diseaseg numbered among them was a family that more or less encouraged him although the disease does not necessarily have a familial history. As with most illnesses, the illness has a percentage of morbidity and mortality that makes the treatment necessarily a vigorous one. The patient has tried everything from dexedrine to Miltown to allay his symptoms with only moderate success. According to the patient this disease has not effected his virulency, 3 . 5 . t Q :W T, slut 1 :ll 4. . .Penal . . . ok., 1. as p 10 . P . ,s4l H l 4, Q t '4 , 13' 7-' . 'tt' 5 'x' I L -. and, especially since institutionalization, the prolific pro- duction of offspring tends to indicate that it leans toward increased virulency if anything. Broken of mind, finances and body this young man has now been told by his re- ferring physician that there is no cure for this disease and that he must now be transferred to another hospital for rehabilitation and conversion of the disease process from an acute to a chronic stage. This will require from one year upward depending upon the severity of the malady and the individual's ability to survive on his antiquated salary and his wife's dexterity at stretching hamburger. Despite the many facets to the problem, the patient's spirit remain high. This is probably indicative that the ailment is colored with a considerable psychiatric over- toneg however, at present there is only palliative therapy available for this element. The patient presents himself now for discharge from this hospital and transfer else- where for rehabilitation. From reports of other unfor- tunates who tread the pathway earlier, the prospects of fewer sleepless nights and less work appears to be only a pipe dream. 4

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lv F,,r,.k,,,,,..l . With the transition from the fabulous, frantic fifties to the souring sixties comes a tendency to reminisce. The Class of 1960 has been one of many firsts. -the first to go year- round during the junior yearg the first to have the privilege of taking National Board Examsg and the first to have the advantage of Biggerstaff Enterprises including notes, japa- nese microscopes, bargain sphygmomanemeters, etc. Clearyis baby, arriving during exams the lst quarter of our freshman year, precipitated an avalanche of offspring that shows no sighs of relenting as yetg there must be some mystic power 'Qu-v, :U-wg . '1,,, 'li willy. 111. lui ul HQ PAST HISTORY .Xl in the odor of formaldehyde. Poor unfortunate fathers who have mortgaged their homes to the hilt and wives who work at two or more jobs have supported us as we pilgrim a land where only millionaires walk with ease and it's rumored that we have to pay to get out of here. Our fresmen year starred such class members as Rhodop- sini' Robinson in Biochemistry oralsg Mary's separate entities of body and soul which never could be united after a Bio- chem quizg Hugh's D on Histology drawingsg Royal's belt buckles in Radiology. UNC,s championship basketball game at Anatomy final time led Rhoades to define the rectovesical septum as that septum connecting the parotid gland to the anus. Heymannis apt description of the first Radiology exam - I thought that was a Rorschack ink blot test! began a long series of verbose criticisms of exams. And then there was the lecture in which Dr. Conrad mentioned epinephrine and norepinephrine 31 times in 34 minutes. Under the enterprising leadership of Biggerstaff, who won the class presidency with the following campaign speech- Norris is a conscientious mang his wife is in labor right now I an 5 Du