Occopodian 1982

MICHAEL ANGELO
ALECCIA
Detroit, Michigan

HOWARD B. ARONOFF
Oceanside, New York

ARTHUR STEPHEN
ARONSON
Akron, Ohio

FLOYD L. ATKINS, JR.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PAUL WILLIAM
AUFDERHEIDE
Sylvania, Pennsylvania

DANNY STEVEN BAILEY
Springfield, Ohio

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GREGORY LEE BARBOUR
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

JAMES J. BARTLEY, JR.
Columbus, Georgia

DOUGLAS MITCHEL BEEK
Silverspring, Maryland

DAVID ELLIOTT BENESON
Southfield, Michigan

HOWARD KEITH BESNER
Baltimore, Maryland

JAMES DINSMORE BLACK,
JR.

Shaker Heights, Ohio

99

ALLAN M. BOIKE
Taylor, Michigan

MARK D. BORNSTEIN
Orlando, Florida

ANDREW H. BOYLE
Brooklyn, New York

JOHN F. BOYLE
Chillicothe, Ohio

ROBERT STUART
BRONSTEIN
Buffalo, New York

LAWHENCE ALLAN
BROWN

Southfield, Michigan

100

SCOTT R. BRUCE
Brookfield, Ohio

JOHN MICHAEL BURNS
Hatboro, Pennsylvania

DANIEL E. CALLAHAN
Plainfield, Indiana

JOHN S. CANALA
Weirton, West Virginia
DALE MITCHELL
CAPRIOTTI
Portland, Oregon

DANIEL BRUCE CHARNEY
Bedford Heights, Ohio

101

RICHARD L. CHILDERS,
JR.
Wadsworth, Ohio

JEFF R. COEN
Toledo, Ohio

PATRICK ALLEN COFFEY
Dayton, Ohio

EDWARD F. COSENTINO
Girard, Ohio

JOHN RAYMOND COWDEN
Cincinnati, Ohio

GARY LEE CURSON
Miami Shores, Florida

102

JAMES D. CUSACK
Parsippany, New Jersey

KEITH B. DANIELS
Birmingham, Michigan
MARK ELLISON DAVISON
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania

SALVATORE DeFRANK
Vineland, New Jersey

ALAN JEFFREY DISCONT
Beachwood, Ohio

ROBERT H. DUSHIN
White Plains, New York

103

GREGSON STANFIELD {;
EDWARDS
New York City, New York

RUSSELL J. ELLICOTT
Milford, New Jersey

GARY L. ERICKSON
Oil City, Pennsylvania

JAMES THOMAS ERKARD,
JR.

Youngstown, Ohio
HARRY ALLAN FEE
Westwood, New Jersey

ROBERT C. FINK
New York City, New York

104

MARC ALLAN FISHMAN
Oak Park, Michigan

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DAVID A. FRIEDMAN
Southfield, Michigan

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PAUL STEPHAN GANDY
San Bernardino, California

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JOYCELYN COPELAND
GATLING

Suffolk, Virginia
DAVID I. GERSTMAN
Brooklyn, New York

PAULA LIZAK GILCHRIST
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

105

STEVEN K. GREENHUT
Spring Valley, New York

LEE S. GRUBELICH
Wethersfield, Connecticut
RONALD T. HADAM
Mayfield Heights, Ohio

GREGORY S.
HATALOWICH
Perryopolis, Pennsylvania
DEBRA CAROL HEIL
Middletown, Pennsylvania

WARREN BRUCE
HENDRICKSON

Grand Rapids, Michigan

106

THOMASM.HERRMANN
Sharpesville, Pennsylvania

ROBERT A. HEWSON
Buffalo, New York

CHARLES FRANCES
HOBAICA
Utica, New York

MARILYN GABRIELLE
HUGHS

Mountain View, California
ROBERT ANTHONY
JANKAS, JR.
Wickliffe, Ohio

DONALD R. JOHNSON
Euclid, Ohio

107

HOWARD MICHAEL
JOHNSON
Hampton, Virginia

ANNE FRANCES JOYCE
Northport, New York

GARY SETH KANTROWITZ
Oceanside, New York

RODNEY M. KOSANOVICH
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

DAVID ROSS KOSOFSKY
West Hartford, Connecticut

CURT SAMUEL KREVITZ
Penn Valley, Pennsylvania

108

YUEN KWONG
Lakewood, Ohio

KAREN FRANCES
LaMORGE

Cranston, Rhode Island
ANTHONY LAZZARINO
Port St. Lucie, Florida

PAUL STANLEY
LIEBERMAN

Southfield, Michigan
JEFFREY ALLAN .
LIEBMAN
Toronto, Ontario

JAMES A. LIEGEL
Buffalo, New York

109

ROBERT HARRISON
LISENBY, JR.
Abbeville, Alabama

ALEXANDER JACOB
LOEVSKY

Cleveland, Ohio
DARRALL P. LONG
Powder Springs, Georgia

MICHAEL LOWHORN
Saint Louis, Missouri

STANLEY A.
LUKSENBERG
Silver Spring, Maryland

ALBERT JOSEPH
MOLLICA

Welland, Ontario

110

PATRICIA A. MOORE
Buchanan, Michigan

DAVID M. MOSS
Farmington Hills, Michigan
RICHARD C. MUNOZ
Livingston, New Jersey

JEFFREY ROBERT
MURRAY

Coral Gables, Florida
THOMASS.MURRAY
Erie, Pennsylvania

ERNEST A. NWANI
Nigeria

111

ROSEMARY CECILE
O'GRADY
Peterborough, Ontario

LAWRENCE STEVEN
OSHER

Southfield, Michigan
DENNISE. PARKINSON
Vermilion, Ohio

EUGENE MICHAEL
PASCARELLA

New Castle, Pennsylvania
JOSEPH DOMINICK
PASQUINO
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

JOHN E. PATRICK, JR.
Orlando, Florida

112

THOMAS JOHNSTON
PATRICK, JR.
White Oak, South Carolina

BETH STARK PEARCE
Center Moriches, New York
MICHAEL LEE PEREZ
Atlantic City, New Jersey

JOSEPH THOMAS
PERILLO

West Seneca, New York
DEDRIE MALTER
POLAKOF
Phoenix, Arizona

ARNOLD VINCENT RAFT
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

113

RICHARD A.

RECTENWALD .
Titusville, Pennsylvania

BARBARA SUSAN
RICKARDS

Cleveland, Ohio

DAVID ROBERSON, JR.
Fairfield, Alabama

SHAY N. ROSENFELD
Farmington Hills, Michigan
SHERI A.ROSENTHAL
Staten Island,_New York

STEVEN ALAN
ROTHSTEIN

Cra·nston, Rhode Island

114

MARCO ANTONIO RUBIO
Honolulu, Hawaii

GLENN ALDEN RUHL
Edinboro, Pennsylvania

KEVIN L. SAMS
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

LIBORIO LEO SANTORO,
JR.

Garden City, Michigan
STUART DAVID SCHERR
Baltimore, Maryland

ALAN SCLAFANI
Blairstown, New Jersey

115

PATRICK GASPAR SESTO
Vista, California

STEVEN ALLEN
SHERMAN

Farmington Hills, Michigan
EUGENE F. SHERWOOD
Broadview Heights, Ohio

RICHARD ALAN SIMMONS
Orlando, Florida

WILLIAM HAROLD
SIMONS
Davison, Michigan

_J~MES G. SKALSKI
W1lhamsville, New York

116

JEFFREY DAVID
SOLOMON
Brooklyn, New York

JEFFREY MARK SPIEGEL
Bronx, New York

NICHOLAS SPRINGER
Mt. Prospect, Illinois

DAVID C. STEGE
Rochester, New York
STANLEY SWEET
Willowdale, Ontario

ARTHUR JESSE TALLIS
Lathrup Village, Michigan

117

ANDREW R. TAPPER .
Jenkintown, Pennsylvama

JAMES V. TRILLI
Monessen, Pennsylvania
ANTHONY THOMAS
TUCCIO
Jamestown, New York

MARK J. TUCCIO
Jamestown, New York
THOMAS M. TUOHY
Staten Island, New York

DUANE N. TURSKI
Buffalo, New York

118

NICKOLAS C. VARVERIS
Austintown, Ohio

LYLE G. VASHER
Grosse Ile, Michigan
MICHAEL ROBLES VEGA
San Bernardino, California

PERRY VAN VERLENI
Jamestown, New York

WALTER MICHAEL
VIEWIG
Mentor, Ohio

GLENN CHARLES VITALE
.L Orange, Connecticut

119

MARK SANFORD WALLEN
Toronto, Ontario

ROBERT KEVIN
WASSERMAN
Miami, Florida

HOWARD MITCHELL
WAXMAN
Hamilton, Ontario

LARRY GENE WELLS
Corry, Pennsy1vania

MARIE LIGUORI
WILLIAMS
Point Pleasant, New Jersey

ROBERT CHARLES
WINGATE

Chesterland, Ohio

120

CARY STEVEN WOLF
West Bloomfield, Michigan

JEFFREY LEE WOODS
Akron, Ohio

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MARCUS MICHAEL GOLDBACHER GERARD GEORGE GUERIN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Manpattan, New York

MARK WILLIAM HAYES VICTOR LEWIS HORSLEY
Cleveland, Ohio Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

THOMAS M. REED PETER C. RICKARDS
Silver Spring, Maryland Cleveland, Ohio
ARTHUR ALLEN STUDEBAKER
HEZEKIAH SALLEY, JR. Rockford, Illinois
Smoaks, South Carolina

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PROFESSOR OF
EXCELLENCE

The blue reflection of an omi- medical knowledge-this is the In addition, Dr. Turlik is on the
Dr. Turlik we all know. And yet staff of Women's General Hos-
nously familiar figure appeared there is more: Dr. Turlik is a pital and is a consultant at the
in the upper half of the Space guarantor of the quality of our V.A. Hospital in Battle Creek
Invaders game. Slowly, with a professional education and Michigan. He also has a privat~
feeling of incalculable dread, practice. He is indeed a scarce office in Bedford Hts., Ohio.
the student turned around; in
an instant his worst fear was commodity. Dr. Turlik's podiatric radiolo-
realized. Caught! An astonish- Dr. Turlik received a B.A. in gy course added definition and
ingly rapid change in demeanor unity to the often indistinct and
altered the features of one who, Biology from Cleveland State indiscriminate subject of podia-
only moments before, had been University in 1974. He received tric medicine- a task which
gleefully zapping armies of in- his D.P.M. from O.C.P.M. in could only be brought about
terstellar aliens with childlike 1978 and was both a PI Delta through many months of work.
singlemindedness. His jaw fraternity member and a recipi-
opened wide with a soundless ent of the M. Harvey Haber Me- For never refusing audience
"Oh!", his skin burned as if morial Award. After a one year to any student's questions, for
flushed with ice water. The ter- surgical residency at Lindell your omnipresence in clinic, for
rified junior frantically grabbed Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, sincerely wanting the class of
up his white clinic coat and Dr. Turlik returned to Cleve- '82 to share in your professional
scurried back to Radiology. Dr. land and began teaching at knowledge and experience, and
Turlik had nabbed another one. O.C.P.M. His positions held at for an excellent course- the
class of '82 salutes you! You are
Those of us who know of Dr. the college include: among the most prominent mo-
Michael Turlik are quite famil- 1979-1980 Suite Supervisor- ments in the conscience of our
iar with his celebrated (not al- profession.
ways joyously so) sixth floor Suite II
rounds. Erudite, assiduous, de- The Class of '82
terminedly principled-a veri- Academic Status
table storehouse of podiatric
Committee

1980-1981 Director Radiology

Department

Research Committee

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DANCEATHON

Dancing for 22 hours straight more. Contestants were al- ond place winners), Belinda
can really give you a wild case lowed a 10 minute break at the Thomas and Gregson Edwards.
of metatarsalgia. However, the end of each hour. Each succes- At the height of the Saturday
thought of dancing to raise sive hour then began with a evening festivities , even Dr.
money for the Muscular Dys- highly imaginative contest or Fiesal Brahim "got down and
trophy Association provided as game. Some of the more "cre- shook it" on the dance floor.
much symptomatic relief of ative" events scheduled were:
pedal foot ache as a whole case- -toilet paper unrolling All participants received free
load of marcaine (with epi). tee-shirts from M.D.A. McDon-
-limbo alds restaurants donated 50
On Saturday, March 7, 1981 -square dance/polka hamburgers. Dr. Abe Rubin of-
at 2:00 p.m., 25 couples started -beer chugging ficially opened the marathon
dancing in the O.C.P.M. annex -bubble gum chew and blow and Ethel Arnold was ready
auditorium and kept on dancing -water balloon toss waiting with breakfast for all
till noon of the following day. -mens wet tee shirts those still dancing at the close.
This marathon was an all out -womens wet tee shirts;
effort by O.C.P.M. students and (no winner!) Over $2,000.00 was raised in
staff to raise money to aid this very first O.C.P.M.-M.D.A.
M.D.A. in its untiring efforts to Seven couples danced the en- fund raising event. We can
find a cure for the muscular tire 22 hours. First place honors hardly wait for the next one!
dystrophies. went to Jim and Sue Trilli for Thank you to all those who so
raising the most money- and nobly gave till it hurt and then
Each couple guaranteed their dancing was pretty good, gave some more. You are heart
pledges of at least $25.00 as a too. Other couples exhibiting beats of our profession.
required entrance fee, although symptoms of acute 22 hour
a particular couple could be disco fever infection were: De- Lawrence Osher
sponsored for considerably bra Heil and James Liegl (sec-

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REVCO MARATHON

It was a strange sight indeed ruptured achilles tendon. dously in popularity and now
to witness marathoners waiting Through this adventitious hosts many nationally known
in line for the next available meeting the seeds of a wonder- runners. This year's list includ-
treatment chair. However, this ful relationship were planted ed: Jeff Galloway, Emil Cog-
was indeed the case at the 6th and continually nurtured land, Charlie Vigil, Ralph Zim-
annual Cleveland Revco Mara- through the efforts of Dr. A. merman, Randy Foster, Jeff
thon held May 20, 1981. With a Spencer, Dr. S. Beekman, and Foster, Larry Fredrich, Ste-
positively perfect location - Dr. B. Chasen. The college's phen Bensen, Margaret Gross
right at the finish line - the role is a now burgeoning one in Greta Waitz, and Jane Wipf'.
O.C.P.M. foot aid tent became the areas of sports medical re- The 1981 winners were:
our mini-clinic "at the front". search, education, and trea~ Men: 6.2 Nick Rose 28:38 sec
Students, with the guidance of ment. The foot aid station is just
Dr. A. Spencer and Dr. S. Beek- the beginning. 26.2 Charlie Vigil 2:16:21
man, treated everything from Women: 6.2 Greta Waitz 32:20
simple cuts, blisters, sprains The marathon itself consisted sec
and strains to hypotension and of two different runs; th 6.2
dehydration. mile run (10 km) and the 26.2 26.2 Jane Wipf 2:40:40
mile marathon. Participants in The course record was set the
Podiatry's affiliation with the the past ran from Western Re- first year by Tom Fleming
Revco Marathon has come a serve Academy to Harold Clark (2:15:5).
long way in just 6 short years. Field. However this year the Thank you Revco for your
Reno Starnoni (marathoner, route was changed to a loop sponsorship and for the mani-
the chief marathon organizer, course, starting at C.S. U., then fold supplies. To all who made
and Adidas consultant) recalled through Rocky River and Bay it possible, many thanks for all
his very first visit to the old po- Village and back to C.S.U. your efforts. A good time was
diatry school on Cornell Road From 2,000 participants in 1977 had by all!
where he met with Drs. Spen- to its 7600 in 1981, the Revco
cer and Tozzi for treatment of a Marathon has grown tremen- Lawrence Osher

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SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT

It was a routine pop fly to left loff, Brown, Robbins, Perpall and Dr. Surloff is limping to this
center. Short-stop Dr. Stewart and Turlik. Nancy Gibbons led day. .
the cheerleading section and
Surloff got a great jump on the the able Dr. Floyd was the head When the dust had finally
ball and called for the catch. umpire for the games- cer- cleared, the juniors had taken
Unfortunately, so did the junior tainly a Promethean task when first place honors-although
playing center field, and the one considers what may hap- their victory was a shortlived
two of them crunched together pen anytime podiatrists get to- one as charges that they had
head on. Surloff missed the gether with a beer keg in prox- used "ringers" led to their
ball, but he did make a great imity: arguments galore. eventual disqualification. Their
"catch" of the center-fielder's successor, the second place
knee. The first annual O.C.P.M. Some teams played in as Surgery team, thus became the
departmental softball tourna- many as five to six games, legitimate winner of the tour-
ment was underway. which turned out to be really nament.
wild affairs. Only the evening's
Seven teams comprised of cli- darkness persuaded the partici- Thanks especially to Barb
nicians and students had gath- pants to end the tournament. Rickards for organizing every-
ered in early summer on Cleve- The games themselves were thing. The day was filled with
land Hts. High School's athletic not really defensive "gems". an abundance of cheer, laughs,
field for what turned out to be Gloves were kept constantly good times, plenty of beer (five
the largest O.C.P.M. social oiled throughout the day to pre- kegs consumed) and baseball.
gathering of the year-and in vent their atrophy through dis- The following day, the P.T.
the midst of it all, a baseball use. Pat Melnik, pitcher for the room was filled with an abun-
tournament broke out. Surgery team received several dance of moans, groans, aches
"strawberries" to attest to her and bruises and-oh yes, a lot
Participating teams repre- fielding prowess. Fred Bartolo- of good memories.
sented Suites I, II, IV, Sports mei went to the hospital to x-
Medicine, Surgery, Physical ray a jammed finger, Belinda Dr. Ed Floyd
Therapy and the junior class. Thomas caught a smoking "bul- Lawrence Osher
Some of the real "glamour let throw" with her bare hand,
names" included on the rosters
were Drs. Hall, Berkowitz, Sur-





All in favor of seceding from the union . ..

Place your bets !
... And this is our new vascular analyzer

LOOKING BACK

MY DIARY 1978 - 79 geries, etc., etc. In the clinic at last! I even
see some patients occasionally.
I finally made it to OCPM. Orientation
was a real trip; I didn't understand a Classes are in the morning this year. In
word. The upper-classmen spoke of Na- each class unfold new and exciting dis-
tional Boards, orals, residencies, and coveries. In biomechanics I learned that
studying old tests. However this was only you can~treat equinus with cowboy boots.
my first day and I wasn't even sure where And in surgery I learned proper procto-
the bathroom was. logical technique.

Classes were unique. Topics ranged There is a new student in our class who
from witamins, transcontinental flights, has become very popular. Some students
and nymph lodes to buying a diamond for call out his initials during tests - "D.H."
your wife and Dr. Chu's Hong Kong Maybe before I graduate I'll meet him.
Dong. Labs were very strange - whole
body dissection, formaldehyde, taking Another year gone by. It will be a
blood from your best friend, and trying to breeze from now on. After all, the seniors
revive a dummy. Was this for real! Wake did swear that this would be the toughest
me when it's over. year.

After all the cramming for exams, I'm MY DIARY 1981 - 82
still alive. It's all downhill from this point
on - the seniors said this would be the A senior at last! Now I, too, can perpet-
hardest year. Whew!! uate all those rumors of which year is the
roughest. Tuition has gone up again - so
MY DIARY 1979 - 80 what else is new?

Tuition has gone up, however it's offset Most of this year was spent in clinic,
by the amount of loan money that I have plus a few small obstacles - like C.C.E.'s,
taken out. Sounds logical to me. I can't externships, residency interviews, Na-
believe the number of classes - 13 to 15 tional Boards II, etc,, etc. Clinic hasn't
per quarter. It must be a misprint! changed a bit - still waiting two hours for
a "no show" and playing "hide and seek"
Every class had its high points. Biome- with the clinicians.
. chanics had its jokes - how skinny is he?
April 1st has finally arrived - the most
In radiology it was St. Paddy's party. In nerve racking day of our young careers:
PVD it was watching Fishman strip to his residence notifications! Once again the
"Fruit of the Looms". In physical diagno- year seems to have flown by. Fewer
sis, it was Greenhut declining Dr. Hayn- classes, no final exams, and yet somehow
ie's rectal exam. this has been the most difficult year of all.

Tests are a treat; the guys don't shave My colleagues and I may soon t r avel
and everyone looks as if they haven't separate paths. Best of luck to all of them!
slept in days. All I can remember is one I'll miss them all.
test after another - this year went by fast.
No more worrying, though, it 's all down- Jim Trilli
hill from here. The seniors said this would Senior Class President
be the hardest year.
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MY DIARY 1980 - 81

Man, I can cruise through this year. All
I have to worry about are National Board
scores, clinic, classes, tests, SOAP's, sur-

Feh, more drek!

Thick, hot, slimy and juicy! Did you see that new freshman!

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.. When it's time to relax .. .

Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .

Ready for oralsl

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I will ascertain the answer having never heard the question. Attention all students assigned to Podo!
En-Guard you cone nose!

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L__

You can't come in here like this, Halloween was Cast this guy supine - in the next building.
2 weeks ago.

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Hey, you can't put an "X" there, my "O" is there!

... put $20.00 on the Steelers for me.

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Where am I?

Mutt and Jeff. I can't believe your tie pronates that much.

SUITE I

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Say the secret woird . ..

Deficiencies again!?!

It's twooo, it's
twooo!

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6 fried rice, one from column A, one from column B, eggrolls ...
"T.G.I.F."

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Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard ... HOW BIG??
Ahha - this ought to wash down the Korex!

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... and when do I get that week off, B? Where's the body?

If we put the nail right here, the leg should stay on.

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Damn, where's my junior when I need him?!
Ha Ha Ha, Turlik's downstairs!

I can still dream, can't I?
... and she had a set of melons like this!

Congratulations To Our
Doctors

Dr. Arthur Perpall
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Discont
Mr. and Mrs. Henry J."Heil

Mrs. Alice Hendrickson
Earl J. and Harriet M. Parkinson

Mr. and Mrs. David Roberson
Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Liegl

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kantrowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Erickson
The Thomas J. Barbour Family
Mr. and Mrs. Amel Hatalowich

Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Wallen
Joseph and Shirley Tapper
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Beneson

Dr. Paul Aufderheide
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Bartley

Bernard and Jean Liebman
Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Patrick
Mrs. Dolores Fishman, Wendy and Brian
Dr. and Mrs. S.F. Cosentino
Helen and Ellison Davison
Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Weinstein
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. LaMorge, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pascarella
Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Burns
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Raft
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Harkin
Mr. Dominic G. Ranieri
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Friedman

Dr. Dedrie Polakof
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pasquino
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ressler
Mr. and Mrs. John A. DiVincenzo

David and Barbara Hufford
Dr. and Mrs. James W. Wiggin

H.H. Curson, D.P.M.
Gerald Erickson

Elmer and Ruth Tentler
The Bartolomei Family
Mr. and Mrs. D.J. N unan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gass
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Baerveldt
Dr. Norbert H. Turski

In a profession so often mired in nepotistic gluttony, schisms, political bargain-
ings and courses in medical expediency and practice management-amidst
flocks of underachievers, tolerators, exam cheaters, and self-aggrandized apoth-
eoses too often oblivious to the suffering of others, it is easy for a student to be
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certain sense of nobility and duty, those valiant physicians and students, owning
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My course on the history of medicine had ended. Facing me cal men do (many of the great figures in medical history, such
were a hundred and twenty-eight young men and women. as Pasteur and Leeuwenhoek, were not physicians), but also
There were pale faces, and swarthy faces, students with dark, denotes a social science that uses the methods of the natural
blond, or red hair, but throughout the entire group the same sciences to attain four objectives: to promote health, to restore
restless light shone in their young eyes, as if t hey had captured health, to prevent disease, and to rehabilitate the patient.
a spark from the sun. These freshmen of mine asked me to tell
them what it means " to be a doctor," and I ended my course Every day, more and more, medicine becomes, above all, the
with this explanation: prevention of disease and the promotion of health. For only by
knowing the healthy man can we cure him when he falls ill.
Ever since the day you first said those magic words, "I want Knowledge of the healthy man is obtained by studying our
to be a doctor," you have been wrapped in the colorful fabric of fellow beings, both the healthy and the diseased, not 011ly in
the history of medicine, a fabric woven from the ideals, wis- the mirror of classical and modern medical literature but also
dom, endeavors, and achievements of our glorious predeces- in current newspapers. You will then learn that poverty is still
the main social cause of disease, just as it was in archaic times.
sors in medicine.
You have just embarked on a fascinating voyage leading to The history of medicine epitomizes the history of civiliza-
.tion. The history of man has passed through three great
the harbor of one of the most dynamic professions. Year after .stages: man learned to master nature by yielding to her laws;
year new windows will open before your eyes, revealing the he learned to live in society by estaBlishing the first communi-
multifaced landscape of medical art and science. ties; he acquired consciousness of his human dignity and of his
ability to forge his own destiny, which in turn enabled him to
But medicine today is so complex that no human mind can acquire greatness.
possibly absorb it all, as was possible a few centuries ago. Only
by using the history of medicine as a gigantic frame to contain The physician in his threefold capacity, as a professional, as
what you learn is it possible to integrate the numerous frag- a member of society, and as a human being, has throughout
ments of medical theory and practice that will be taught you in history helped man in his physical, mental, and social ascent.
your student years. Only through the history of medicine can As a professional man in particular, the physician has always
one appreciate that to be a doctor, in the true sense of the acted as a healer, using magic, faith, empiricism, or rational
word, is to be not only a wise man but, above all, a good man. resources; as a knower, for he knows the secrets of nature and
To be a doctor is, in other words, to be a whole man, who of the human being; as a preventer, for he can arrest disease
fulfills his task as a scientist with professional quality and by forestalling its vanguards before they develop; and as an
integrity; as a human being, with a kind heart and high ideals; organizer, for he can guide society in fighting the historicoso-
and as a member of society, with honesty and efficiency. cial process called disease. To heal, to know, to prevent, to
organize-these will be your four future spheres of profession-
Contemporary medicine is founded on a series of events that al activity, embraced in the expression "to be a doctor."
resulted from the thoughts and deeds of a few men in the
course of history. History is made by men, and the greatest To be a doctor, then, means much more than to dispense pills
among the makers of history is the physician because of the or to patch up or repair torn flesh and shattered minds. To be a
effects of his ministry on all othe rhuman beings. doctor is to be an intermediary between man and God.

Man is the only creature able to make tools with which to You have chosen the most fascinating and dynamic profes-
make other tools, and of all the tools made by him words are sion there is, a profession with the highest potential for great-
the most important. The fabric of medicine is woven with ness, since the physician's daily work is wrapped up in the
words that express the ideas from which they sprang. The subtle web of history. Your labors are linked with those of
original meaning of the three words-physician, medic, doc- your colleagues who preceded you in history and those who
tor- that describe our profession is highly illuminating. The are now working all over the world. It is this spiritual unity
word "physician" derives from the Greek physis, or nature, with our colleagues of all periods and of all countries that has
denoting that the physician has his roots in an understanding made medicine so universal and eternal. For this reason we
of the nature of things; the word "medic" comes from mederi, must study and try to imitate the lives of the great doctors of
to heal, and the root med means to meditate or think, so that history. Their lives, blazing with greatness, teach us that our
medic is equivalent to thinker and healer; the word "doctor" profession is the only one that still speaks of its duties in this
originally meant master, instructor. Thus, semantically, our world of today, in which almost everyone.else speaks only of
profession involves learning, knowing, healing, and teaching.
his rights.
In its turn, the word "medicine" not only means what medi-

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