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SEAL OF CHARITY HOSPITAL
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T-WAVE 1990
OUR LIFE
AND TIMES
VOLUME IX
TULANE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
1990 T-Wave Staff
Barry Resnik
Chief Editors
Steve Rinehouse
Layout Editors Advertising Editors
Jeanne Gundzik
Barry Resnik
Steve Rinehouse
Keith Kronemer
Barry Resnik
Steve Rinehouse
Text Editors Chief Photographers
Dave Weist
Parthenia Wong
Barry Resnik
Steve Rinehouse
Cartoonists
Ricardo Buenaventura
William Hughes
Amy Landa
Contributing Photographers
Stephen Hopkins
John Kuratani
Lynne Schmid
Contributors
Joan Cheng, Janine Coles, Lori Gardner, Bob Hernandez, Chris Hinnant, Jenny Huang, David Levitats,
Jenae Limoges, Mark Margolis, Ronnie Sheena, Jeanne Vasiljevich, Dr. Herrera-Ob/Cyn
Special Thanks
To all those who contributed photographs, artwork, and time for the production of this book.
To Bill Hopkins, Kathy Brooks and thejosten's Publishing Company without which this book could have
never been published.
To John Salvaggio, M.D. for the History of Charity Hospital section.
To Thomas Frank for the History of Tulane Medical School section.
To Earl Bihimeyer for coming through in our time of need.
To Allen Dufour for his work with the senior portrait section.
And finally, to all the parents who have supported and tolerated us in our quest for fulfillment. We thank
you.
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To the Graduating Class of 1990:
Congratulations to you and to those who have supported and loved you as you moved through the arduous educational
path that has led to the M.D. degree. You are joining our profession with bright promise and with a view to improving
it and moving medicine and science forward in the future. There are those among you who will help your fellow citizens
to maintain health and to recover from disease for the rest of your professional lives. May you undertake this task with
integrity, dedication and success. There are some of you who will contribute to our better understanding of biology,
disease, prevention and treatment by your efforts in investigation. May you succeed in your efforts to improve our fund
of knowledge and the betterment of mankind. There are some in your class who will administer the medical enterprise,
from public health issues, to medical education to medjcal^administratign. May you be guided by the wisdom you have,
and will continue to acquire.
For all of you, the faculty and administration of Tulane University School of Medicine wish you well. We are confident
in your preparation for a lifetime of learning and continuing contribution to medicine and the welfare of society. We
are honored and pleased to have been a participant in that preparation.
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A FRIEND
WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO YOU
David Byron Griffith 1964 - 1988
Byron was the innocence I outgrew and the small town common-sense I wish I had. He helped me appreciate the very small things and put the difficult ones in
perspective.
l-le was always at the top of his class, yet this was not an overriding issue with him. He just always tried to do his best — he never competed with anyone except
himself In all the years I knew him he never changed. He was a very bright young man who handled a complex world with simplicity. That was his secret. In a time
when everyone sought to get ahead, to ha ve the most, and to be the first, Byron simply sought competence and no-nonsense hard work. From there he let the pieces
fall where they may.
Byron was my friend throughout the good and bad times. He was the little piece of Mississippi that Sharon and I lo ved and left behind to come to Medical School
We think ofhim often and we will always miss him.
HARRIS EVANS
Class of 1991
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CHARITYHOSPITAL OF
NEW ORLEANS:
A Rich History, A Poor State Of Affairs
By John E. Salvaggio, MD
Henderson Professor Of Medicine
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Charity Hospital embraces an intriguing
and colorful past, and has served a real
purpose. It is steeped in Louisiana his-tory,
and has survived difficult times and
some of the worst political squabbles
and patronage problems in the country,
enduring for over 250 years primarily
because it was needed.
Its charter dates to January 1 736, when
Jean Louis, a French sailor formerly
employed by the Company of the Indies
who worked in New Orleans as a boat
builder, bequeathed his estate of ap-proximately
10,000 livres (about
$2,500 today) to the founding and fur-nishing
of Charity Hospital in early
French colonial Louisiana. This makes it
the oldest continually operating hospital
in what is now United States territory.
(Bellevue Hospital in New York City is
also the same age, but was established
two months after Charity.)
Perhaps it was the abandonment of the
poor, who could not be cared for at the
French military of "Royal" Hospital,
that induced Jean Louis to be so gener-ous.
Initially called the Hospital of St.
John or Le Hopital des Pauvres de la
Charite (Hospital for the Poor), its char-ter
came into effect upon Louis' death.
In his wisdom, Louis appointed the Rev-erend
Father Philippe, Parish Cure' and
pastor of St. Louis Cathedral, to work
with Councilman Raguet in disbursing
his legacy and running the Hospital.
Sunday collections were taken in the
cathedral to support it. In addition, sev-eral
local individuals made donations of
property in their wills.
On March 10, 1736, a house at
Chartres and Bienville Streets became
the first quarters for the Hospital. Pa-tients
must have been admitted immedi-ately,
because only a month after its
opening the house proved to be too
small and by 1 743 it became necessary
to replace it.
A government land grant at the ship-turn
at the end of a canal and fronting on
the cemetery was provided to build the
new Hospital. This location was advan-tageous
since supplies could be un-loaded
from the ships as well as patients
transferred to or received at the Hospi-tal.
Its proximity to a cemetery was also
of obvious advantage.
After Louisiana was ceded to Spain in
1 763, the French were allowed to ad-minister
Charity for six more years. With
the arrival of Governor O'Reilly in late
1769, however. Charity came under
control of church authorities and the
Spanish government, as was the custom
of such hospitals in Madrid and other
Spanish cities.
In 1779, a great hurricane wreaked
havoc upon New Orleans, reducing
Charity Hospital to ruins. Only the
kitchen and storehouse escaped its fury.
This destruction resulted in much con-sternation
and suffering, leaving home-less
patients to "perish upon the streets
or in some obscure corner." Nonethe-less,
the Hospital survived.
During this terrible time, Don Andres
Almonester y Roxas, a former war clerk,
civil notary, and noble gentleman born
in Andalusia, Spain, came to Louisiana
and rescued the Hospital. He was a
leading citizen of the colony and made
a modest fortune as an owner of retail
stores adjacent to Jackson Barracks. He
was described by some as a "selfless
benefactor" and by others as an "op-portunistic
land speculator."
Almonester offered the huge amount of
$1 14,000 to rebuild the hurricane-rav-aged
Hospital. It was completed in Oc-tober
1785, and named the Charity
Hospital of St. Charles (the San Carlos
Hospital) in honor of King Charles III of
Spain.
Almonester died in 1 798, probably feel-ing
that most of Charity's administrative
problems had been solved. Yet the
problems only worsened.
Charity Hospital circa 1835.
In the early ISOO's, the mayor of New
Orleans pleaded before the Louisiana
legislature to "Look at the Charity Hos-pital
and examine the state of abandon-ment
and deprivation to which this
institution is reduced. The poor man
preyed upon by maladies seeks asylum
and finds only a grave."
Another catastrophic event occurred
Friday, September 23, 1809, when a
kitchen fire quickly spread to the
wooden shingled roof and burned the
entire hospital to the ground. The indi-gent
sick suffered intense hardship after
this fire, and many were housed in the
upper gallery of the Cabildo, which
served as City Hall.
Louisiana became a state on April 30,
1812, and assumed full responsibility
for Charity Hospital on March 13,
1813. Immigrants from dozens of Euro-pean
countries, particularly Germany
and Ireland, were treated at Charity,
and by 1858 foreigners outnumbered
US natives by a ratio of six to one.
To provide additional financial aid to
Charity, taxes were placed on all con-certs
and Carnival Balls. In addition, all
theatres in New Orleans were required
to give four benefit performances annu-ally.
Although an official gambling act
would not go into effect until 1923, a
tax on gaming halls was instituted for
the benefit of the hospital as early as
1815. Further amended in 1832, this
law increased the number of gaming
halls and raised the tax to $7,500, three-quarters
of which was designated for
Charity Hospital. However, it was the
1 842 Passenger Tax paid by all persons
arriving in New Orleans from foreign
ports that ensured the hospital's finan-cial
stability during this period.
Five years after the great fire, the square
roughly corresponding to the location of
the current Fairmont Hotel on Canal
Street was sold by the city to the Admin-istrators
of Charity to build a new hospi-tal.
Work was begun in 1815, and when
completed in the same year, the new
facilities were described as "vast and
commodious, capable of caring for 1 20
patients."
Above: An open ward of tlie early WOO's.
Opposite: Don Andres Almonester y Roxas, early Charity Hospital benefactor.
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A great flood inundated the city the next
year and led to the creation of a medical
licensing board (The Committee-Medi-cal)
to deal with the subsequent terrible
sanitary conditions and medical prob-lems.
Indeed, the narrative of a young
Boston minister who had visited New
Orleans in that year described the hos-pital
as "a deep disgrace to any civilized
or Christian Country."
A group of citizens visiting Charity in
1818 were horrified by the condition of
patients, complained to the governor
and Hospital administrators. They noted
the Hospital's filthy condition, and the
total inadequacy of attendants. They
also stated that patients had to sleep on
mattresses upon which were "visible
marks of the putrid discharges of those
who had died on them of the most
pestilential diseases."
Chickens roosted in the hospital rooms,
and "their offal covered the furniture in
every direction." They further reported
that brick dust was used to absorb the
filth on the hospital floors, and that it
arose in clouds and choked patients on
the few occasions when the floors were
swept! It is important to note here that
many epidemics struck the city and
killed thousands from early French colo-nial
days through the 20th Century.
The deterioration of the San Carlos Hos-pital
combined with a marked increase
in the local population made it apparent
that new facilities were again needed.
Completed in 1833 at a cost of
$149,570, the fourth version of Charity
undoubtedly marked a milestone in its
history. Records show the lower story
was occupied in part by "the Medical
College," indicating that, when formed
in 1834, the new Medical College of
Louisiana (now Tulane University
School of Medicine) was located within
the hospital.
With the arrival of the Daughters of
Charity, in combination with the above
mentioned items, the overall medical
atmosphere in New Orleans was excel-lent.
The entire medical complex was,
at that time, very likely one of the best
of its kind in the world.
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Charity Hospital Circa 1900. Note the addition of satellite buildings around the main structure
pictured on the previous page.
G DOCTORS
Dueling was not uncommon in the mid-1 800's and many encounters
between physicians and even professors at the Medical College took place,
each of which represents a story in itself. As an example, one acrimonious
duel involving Charity Hospital physicians was fought in 1 856 between bitter
professional rivals, Drs. John Foster and Samuel Choppin, essentially stem-ming
from the improper treatment of a medical student who had been shot
by a law student in a Carnival ball fracas. Luckily, both Choppin and Foster
missed each other when firing their shotguns, and .the entire matter was
settled without further ado.
Three years later, however, Choppin and Foster were at it again. For this duel
Foster armed himself with a self-cocking five-valve revolver and Choppin
with a single-valve Derringer in each of his pants pockets, as well as Bowie
knife in a coattail pocket. Before Choppin could cock his pistol, Foster shot
him through the neck, injuring the jugular vein. Driven back several feet,
Choppin's right pistol discharged, wounding his own left hand. Foster shot
again, penetrating Choppin's upper thigh. Choppin then drew his other
Derringer and fired at Foster who had turned to fire at him. Fortunately both
missed. With his guns empty, Choppin drew his Bowie knife, and with blood
streaming from his neck, charged at Foster. Foster was reluctant to kill his
wounded opponent, and simply waved his revolver, imploring Choppin to
stop. Luckily for Choppin, medical students at the scene rushed to his defense
and separated the two men. Choppin's lacerated jugular vein was promptly
repaired and his other injuries treated. Foster was arrested, jailed overnight,
and released the next day as Choppin, who made a full and speedy recovery,
refused to press any charges against his opponent.
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After the Civil War commenced in April
1861, its chaos made little difference to
Charity Hospital. Following a series of
resignations in February 1862, Ernest
Lewis, a young student intern, was ap-pointed
to administrate the hospital at
the age of twenty-one. Lewis refused to
treat General Benjamin Butler's soldiers
when Butler captured New Orleans
with his flotilla and 15,000 man garri-son.
The General was extremely lenient
with young Lewis even though Butler
later learned that Charity was housing
Confederate soldiers transferred from
the old marine hospital when its sup-plies
were cut off following the city's
surrender. Lewis finally agreed to ac-cept
the federal soldiers, and actually
convinced Butler that additional physi-cians
were needed to care for them.
During the post-war period, lottery tick-ets
were again sold to support the Hos-pital
through the Louisiana State Lottery
Company formed in 1 868. The govern-ment
finally outlawed this company
around 1900, but until then, it provided
(at least on paper) major support for
Charity. The old Ship Passenger Tax that
had helped greatly in the late 1840's
and 1850's, was diverted to the Bureau
of Agriculture and Immigration. Thus
the hospital's debts rose markedly.
At this time, large numbers of blacks
were admitted to the hospital. Prior to
the War, most blacks had been treated
by private physicians on the plantations
where they had worked as slaves.
When they became emancipated, more
and more of them required the services
of Charity. The Charity Board enacted a
policy forbidding discrimination
founded on race, color, or previous
condition. However, this was inter-preted
to mean only that care would be
provided on an equal basis, and did not
prevent the development of separate
wards for whites and blacks later in
Charity's history.
Another important advance occurred at
Charity in 1885 when the first ambu-lance
service was inaugurated. Until
that time, the sick traveled to Charity in
horse-drawn wagons or similar bumpy
transportation that hardly benefited the
patient. The tradition of Charity interns
riding in ambulances lasted for almost
1 00 years, and was only discontinued in
the 1960's.
Many new additions were made to the
Charity complex around the turn of the
century, and the hospital probably con-tained
almost 2,000 patient beds. Other
hospitals in the city had perhaps only
1 50 beds combined, including even the
larger ones such as Touro Infirmary and
Hotel Dieu with 50 to 60 beds each.
The population of New Orleans in-creased
almost 30-fold between 1832
and 1926, while Charity's bed capacity
had less than doubled. It was during this
time-period that the Hospital was
forced to place two patients to a bed,
and sometimes even a third patient on
a lower mattress near the floor.
The conclusion of World War I in 1918
signaled the arrival of another war, that
of the School of Medicine and Charity
Administrators, as increasing hostilities
came to the fore. But the worst was yet
to come as Huey P. Long's and subse-quent
administrations came to power.
After Long was elected in 1928, he
immediately introduced a bill in the
legislature allowing the governor to re-organize
and appoint a new Charity
Hospital Board of Administrators. He
removed Charity's superintendent, and
replaced him with Dr. Arthur Vidrine, a
29 year-old Rhodes Scholar who was
engaged in rural general practice.
Top: In the early 1900's it was common for two patients to share
one bed.
Bottom: The first ambulance service in New Orleans started at
Charity Hospital in 1885
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charity Hospital complex circa 1940.
Medical education had become more
complex, leading to the establishment
of many new clinical departments at
Tulane. A special Tulane service was
also initiated at Charity. Long made no
attempt to block this move, yet, in 1 930
he abruptly dismissed Dr. Alton
Ochsner, then Chairman of Surgery at
Tulane, from Charity, allegedly because
of Ochsner's complaints about political
constraints placed on his attempts to
build a first-rate Surgery Department at
Tulane. The Long-Ochsner-Vidrine af-fair,
together with Tulane's failure to
award Long a law degree that he de-sired,
quite possibly played a role in the
establishment of the Louisiana State
University Medical School at that time.
In addition. Long enriched his campaign
funds by systematic five-percent deduc-tions
from the salaries of all Charity
employees, the so called "deduct box."
It had been clear for many years that the
Charity Hospital building, then 100
years old, again needed to be replaced.
Following Long's assassination on Sep-tember
9, 1935, federal funds became
available to build the current Charity
Hospital, completed on June 27, 1939.
During the World War II years at Char-ity,
a reorganization act was passed in
the state legislature to create the De-partment
of Institutions. This adminis-trative
branch was to manage all state
hospitals, causing a great deal of politi-cal
bickering. Governor Sam Jones
threatened to close the Hospital in
1942, and parts of it were actually
closed for a while. By 1 943, 400 Charity
physicians entered the armed services
and in 1944 there were only 131 interns
and residents to staff the entire hospital.
Charity's Anesthesiology Department
and Blood Bank were also reorganized
during these years by Dr. John Adriani.
Right: The old information wing has been converted to
the "Cloaca Cafe'" or "The Fistula.
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Far right: Sister Stanislaus (1865-1949), a former
Mother Superior for the Daughters of Charity, served
the sick faithfully.
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Times-Picayune editorial cartoon on Charity's current
tunding crisis
Dr. Alton Ochsner leads a 1950's
"Bullpen" session.
At war's end in 1945, problems involv-ing
interrelationships developed not
only for Charity, but also for the medical
schools. The Ochsner Clinic had
emerged as a large medical institution
employing many of Tulane's faculty and
developing its own residency training
programs. The Veterans Administration
Hospital also developed a residency
program that further competed with
Charity. With the rise of LSU Medical
School, the old controversies between
Tulane and Charity were now simply
extended to it as well.
In the late 1950's many sweeping
changes were considered for Charity
and its associated schools. In the 1 960's
the ugly matter of segregation was faced
and the "colored and white" wards that
were on separate sides of the hospital
were eliminated.
By the late 1 960's financial problems for
the Hospital and both schools were
paramount, particularly as Tulane was
increasing its residency affiliations with
hospitals other than Charity, likely for
political and financial reasons. The cru-cial
nature of the situation prompted the
governor to visit Charity, and the hospi-tal's
director described it as having
slipped from a position of national lead-ership
as a teaching center and medical
institution for the poor, to a position of
inferiority. He warned that the tight
money situation at Charity had begun
to have an adverse effect on the "life
blood" for the institution, namely its
intern and residency programs. The
director stated that if the numbers of
residents continued to decrease, the
hospital would soon be in serious
trouble. Attempts were therefore made
to improve the situation. The Health
Education Authority of Louisiana was
established to revive the entire
Tulane-LSU-Charity Hospital complex;
some progress was made, but Charity
remained essentially unaffected. The
Department of Health & Human
Resources, was also developed during
the 1970's and control of Charity
Hospital was moved to this large
umbrella agency in Baton Rouge.
In 1974 LSU and Tulane signed an
affiliation agreement with Charity pro-viding
that at three-year intervals the
schools would alternate naming a medi-cal
director with an associate director
being appointed by the other school.
Under the new plan, a lay administrator
was named as well.
Other important contracts were signed
with Charity at this time whereby the
deans of the schools were reimbursed
to pay faculty members for performing
hospital functions. Woefully inadequate
financing continued at Charity, howev-er,
and the hospital lost its accreditation
on several occasions since 1975. This
was threatening, not only for Charity,
but for both schools and the entire
medical education process.
At present the Hospital's grossly inade-quate
financing appears to be worse
than ever despite a consistently high
inpatient census and an outpatient clinic
load that borders on intolerable. During
the last year alone there have been
several severe cuts in the Hospital's
budget. The situation at Charity has led
to alleged poor working conditions for
physician and student alike, and two
reprimands by national residency re-view
and accreditation committees.
And while many plans for problem-solv-ing
are currently being developed the
question remains, "Is this grand old
institution a nineteenth century anach-ronism
or can it be properly financed,
funded, and equipped to provide the
excellent care for patients and teaching
opportunities for medical students that
it has in the past?" Although the future
cannot be predicted with any accuracy,
one can only hope that future adminis-trations
will act favorably on initiatives
to improve the relatively poor state of
affairs that currently exists.
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TULANE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE:
The Tulane University School of Medi-cine
has had a rich and unique past. It
has weathered the stormiest periods of
American History, it has become em-broiled
in more scandals and imbroglios
than has any political administration in
the history of the Louisiana legislature (a
dubious yet impressive accomplish-ment).
Yet it has not only survived but
has gone on to play a leading role in the
development of American medical edu-cation,
and in the process has produced
some of the greatest physicians in
American History.
There were only thirteen medical
schools in the U.S. in the summer of
1832 when Dr. Warren Stone, a gruff
Vermont surgeon, boarded the steam-ship
Amelia in New York harbor. The
Amelia was bound for New Orleans and
like all passage out of New York City in
August 1 832, it was booked to capacity.
Cholera had broken out in New York
and it was killing hundreds. Four days
out, the dreaded disease broke out on
the Amelia and the vessel was forced to
dock at Folly Island, South Carolina.
Stone, the only physician on board,
cared for the sick until he too fell prey
to the disease. Several Charleston physi-cians
ventured to the island to treat the
ill. One of these young doctors was
Thomas Hunt. Hunt befriended Stone
and cared for him during his bout of
cholera. Both Hunt and Stone were only
twenty-four years old, and both had big
dreams. Stone, while coarse, of vulgar
speech, and from a poor background
was an outstanding surgeon. Hunt, on
the other hand, was articulate,
well-born, and classically educated,
having attended the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The
two developed a mutual respect and
arranged to meet in New Orleans as
soon as fortune would permit.
From The 1830's To Present
By Thomas Frank MD
Upon rendezvous in New Orleans,
Stone and Hunt met up with Dr. John
Harrison of Washington, D.C.. Both
Stone and Harrison received appoint-ments
at the oldest hospital in the
United States, which was Charity Hos-pital
of New Orleans. Eventually these
three gentlemen. Stone, Hunt, and
Harrison, decided to establish the first
medical school in the Deep South. They
met with considerable opposition from
the local Paris-trained Creole physicians
who felt that a doctor could not be
properly educated without attending a
classical university. But since the Louisi-ana
Purchase of 1803, enough Ameri-cans
had settled in New Orleans to
override the resistant French physicians.
If the French influence had not been so
strong. New Orleans may have had a
medical school long before 1 834. In any
event. Stone, Harrison, and Hunt
teamed up with six other local Ameri-can
doctors to draft a constitution for
the establishment of the medical col-lege.
Dr. Hunt, the most eloquent of the
founders, was to be the first dean and
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
The school was called, "The Medical
College of Louisiana" and the first clas-ses
were held in January of 1835.
There were only eleven students in the
first class. Tuition, fees, room and
board came to a total of less than four
hundred dollars a year. The first few
years were difficult ones. Deans
seemed to come and go every year and
there were many abrupt faculty
changes, but still the school survived.
By 1843 there were over one hundred
students. Even then, as now, diversity
characterized the student body. Mem-bers
of the class came from Alabama,
Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Connecticut, and Louisiana. Top: Tulane University School of Medicine circa
1970.
Bottom: Thomas IHunt, M.D. first Dean of the
Medical College.
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Top: Newspaper clipping from 1834.
Bottom: Our original Constitution.
'he Class of 1910
H'c *}>c hii^f* ffTBti^e^ to-9irfi)ce the establish mcnl in ihia
nbical college, . Tha sontlomen wlio fill thechaira
'jeonihip areratm ot^iU.amlexperienco, anJ we-hope
f^ m^y not be ihmijEht invidiouj, wlien we pOinL in
,•' ir in M^sara. HuVT, Imoalls nn^l \.V7.F.y\^t^n, with
feixu noTninianc* is m'vre DXtendJ"J. Tlio iwu former
fc'fure oTiCLiied in o like capacity in similar in.s'itu-
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Medical school in those early days was
much different than it is today. For one
thing, one needed to attend only eight
months of lectures to get the M.D.
degree. The school year was four
months long, with the second year be-ing
identical to the first. One repeated
the same seven courses over again. We
can only assume that these early educa-tors
figured learning was better the sec-ond
time around.
The curriculum consisted of courses in
Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry,
Materia Medica, Principles and Practice
of Medicine, Surgery, and lastly. Obstet-rics
and the Diseases of Women and
Children. The professors received no
salary per se. They were compensated
instead by selling tickets to their lectures
to medical students (and whomever else
would buy them).
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Right: The Richardson Memorial Building on the
Uptown Campus.
Below: Anatomy class in the Josephine
Hutchinson Memorial Building.
The instruction in the early days was
wholly didactic. Practical teaching was
given only in Anatomy. The lectures
were delivered to the entire student
body assembled in a large room or
amphitheater. Clinical subjects were
taught in the same manner. Indeed, the
unmotivated students would often grad-uate
without having ever attended a
delivery, without observing an opera-tion,
and often without having ever
examined a patient.
Thomas H. Wade was a typical Tulane
medical student of the 1850's. Like
some of the students of today, he fre-quently
skipped classes. His free time
was spent playing kissing games with
the ladies in the parlor of his boarding
house, attending the theater, and occa-sionally
frequenting the local absinthe
bar. Wade began his medical education
in 1850 when he took a nominal pre-ceptorship
with two practitioners in his
hometown. The following year he en-rolled
at Tulane. He registered for the
customary seven courses and had
thirty-three hours of lecture per week.
His day began at 9:30 AM and ended at
5:30 PM. The school year lasted from
November 17th to February 16th. His
total textbook bill was $22.00. Wade
listed his total expenses for the year at
$420.35. Room and board cost him
only $20 per month and his instruments
were only $4.50. Among his incidental
expenses were a physician's frock coat
($20), an arm and two legs for dissec-tion
(10 cents each), and 1 cents worth
of candles to dissect by.
While Wade was probably the typical
student, there were a few "gunners"
even in the 1850's. One such gunner
was Jeptha McKinney. The lackadaisical
attitude of certain faculty members infu-riated
Jeptha who wrote, "The profes-sors
have not given us more than one-half
the lectures this week that we are
entitled to". Jeptha graduated predict-ably
with honors in 1 857. His eight page
thesis was on the subject of pneumonia
for which he recommended heavy
doses of mercury, bleeding, and blister-ing.
Tuition and fees remained remarkably
stable throughout the 19th century. By
1900 it cost $150.00 for the first two
years and $165.00 for the final two
years. Professors were paid about
$3,750.00 per year with the bulk of that
still coming from ticket sales.
Between 1 907 and 1 955, the preclinical
and clinical years were physically sepa
rated with the preclinical classes held
on the uptown campus and the clinical
classes downtown. The first two years
were finally moved downtown in 1963.
In the 1960's and early 1970's applica-tions
to medical school began to soar.
Medical school admissions became ex-tremely
competitive with Tulane receiv-ing
over 5000 applications for 148
places. Thus medical students quickly
became America's educational elite.
Charity Hospital remained the principal
teaching hospital for the Tulane students
until Tulane Medical Center was
opened in 1976 which served to add
dimension to the clinical teaching at
Tulane.
Most medical schools required an ele-mentary
school education and high
school was desirable. An applicant had
to be of "good moral character" and
was supposed to have worked under a
preceptor for one to three years before
starting school. This requirement, how-ever,
was not enforced and was ob-served
by relatively few students. In
fact, literacy was not even necessary for
admission and stories abound concern-ing
the lack of intellectual achievements
of mid-1 9th century medical students.
It was rare for any medical student prior
to 1 890 to hold a college degree. It was
not until nearly the turn of the century
that Tulane required more than a high
school diploma for admission and up
until 1939 any applicant who had stud-ied
at Tulane as an undergraduate was
unconditionally accepted to the medi-cal
school.
Academic standards began to improve
in the second half of the 19th century.
In 1 893 the four-month school year was
increased to six months and the equiva-lent
of one year of college was required
for admission. By 1 900 a student had to
attend four different six month sessions
(two year preclinical and two years
clinical) in order to graduate.
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Left: TMC opened in 1976
Below: Hutchinson Mennorial in 1930.
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By the early 1900's it became apparent
that there was much disparity among
the quality of medical schools. In 1908
Abraham Flexner was sent by the
Carnegie Foundation to examine the
state of the medical education. He be-gan
his study of 155 schools at Tulane
in the winter of 1908. This report con-cluded
that Tulane was ranked among
the top 3 medical schools in the South.
Encouraged by the Flexner report
Tulane continued to take great strides in
improving academic requirements for
admission and the quality of its curricu-lum.
Today Tulane is ranked among the
top 20 medical schools in the nation in
terms of both competitiveness and edu-cation
quality.
For the first eight years of the school's
existence it had no permanent home.
Between 1835 and 1843 lectures were
delivered in such various places as a
local church, the State FHouse, several
wards of Charity FHospital, and even the
professors' homes. The school's first
building was erected in 1843 on the
corner of Baronne and Dryades streets,
where the First City Bank stands today.
The professors paid for the building out
of their own pockets and the land was
donated by the State Legislature in re-turn
for the free services of the Tulane
faculty at Charity FHospital.
In 1 847 the legislature decided to estab-lish
a State University with the already
famous Medical College of Louisiana as
its Centerpiece. Thus in February 1847,
the Medical College of Louisiana be-came
the Medical Department of the
University of Louisiana. A new building
was constructed to house the increasing
number of medical students. The medi-cal
school continued to grow rapidly
and so did its reputation. In the early
1 830's a young Baltimore businessman,
Paul Tulane, took up residence in New
Orleans and soon amassed much
wealth. Although he moved to Prince-ton,
New Jersey in 1873, he did not
forget the city that gave him so much
and in 1 882 he decided to donate 1 .25
million dollars for the establishment of
a university. The city's leaders were able
to persuade Mr. Tulane to improve and
privatize the existing University of Loui-siana
rather than starting from scratch.
So in 1884 the public University of
Louisiana became the private Tulane
University of Louisiana.
The funds from Paul Tulane's donations
were used to construct what is now the
uptown campus and to improve the
university's academic and law depart-ments.
In 1893, the wife of Dr. Tobias
Richardson (past Dean of the medical
school just after the Civil War) donated
money to build a desperately needed
new complex for the medical school. It
was erected on Canal Street near the
present site of Hawthorne Hall and
opened in 1893. For the first time,
students had fully equipped laboratories
in sciences other than anatomy. Al-though
considered one of the best
equipped medical school buildings, by
1907 it had become too small for the
expanding medical school. A wealthy
patient of Dr. Rudolph Matas, Alexand-er
Hutchinson, came to the rescue with
a large donation which was used to
construct a new Richardson building
uptown. This building was used to
house preclinical classes while the clini-cal
years remained downtown. The
downtown building was renamed the
Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Build-ing.
In December of 1930, a new
Hutchinson Building was opened con-tiguous
with Charity Hospital which was
acclaimed as the best medical training
unit in the South. In October of 1 955, a
ten-story addition to the Hutchinson
Memorial was added to house the soph-omore
medical departments and in
1 963 a third addition was completed to
enable all four years to be taught under
the same roof. The 300 bed Tulane
Medical Center teaching hospital was
the most recent addition to the hospital
complex. It opened its doors in 1976.
Additions to this medical center are
planned.
As we finally leave behind this proud
old symbol of New Orleans' medical
past, perhaps only a photographic com-posite
of our class adorning a corridor
on the first floor will be all that remains
to document our presence here. But in
these four years we have become part
of Tulane's rich history. We have con-tributed
to both her virtues and vices
and as we leave her in the distance, we
leave part of ourselves behind in the
formaldehyde-saturated anatomy labs,
the sleep-inducing lecture halls, and the
malodorous wards of Charity Hospital.
For it is here in this place that we have
learned to become doctors, the latest
links in a chain forged by our 12,000
predecessors, and the one common
bond that ties us together as a class.
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ADMINISTRATION
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Eamon M. Kelly, PhD Neal A. Vanselow,
President, Tulane MD
University Chancellor, Tulane
Medical Center
Vincent A. Fulginiti,
iVID
Dean, School of
Medicine
Blackwell B. Evans,
MD
Vice-Dean, School of
Medicine
W. Clifford Newman, Wallace K.
PhD Tomlinson, MD
Associate Dean, Associate Dean,
Admissions Student Affairs
James S. Storer, MD
Associate Dean,
Clinical Affairs
Anna Cherrie Epps,
PhD
Director, MEd REP
Martin S. Litwin, MD Mary S. Baker Nita Paula Purr Jean White
Associate Dean/ Assistant to the Breckenridge Secretary Administrative
Director, Faculty Dean Administrative Assistant for
Practice Plan Assistant Financial Aid
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ADMISSIONS
Joseph C. Pisano,
PhD
Chairman, Financial
Aid
Assistant Director of
Admissions
Gayle A. Sayas Roselyn
Administrative Marshall
Assistant to Secretary
Dean Newman
Kathy Muller Judy Boihem
Administrative Administrative
Assistant Assistant
STUDENT AFFAIRS
Carol A.
Gaudet
Administrative
Assistant to
Dean
Tomlinson
Melinda
Smiley
Administrative
Assistant
Dionne M.
Weber
Secretary
NO
PICTURE
AVAIUBLE
ludith
Hagstette
Administrative
Assistant
Julia C. Heine
Administrative
Assistant
STUDENT SERVICES-MEdREP
Front Row: Laura Rivera, Ruth
Post, Leonor Encaiarde
Back Row: Justine Parker, Juanita
Arbour, Yolanda Chaisson, Lygia
Alvarado, Lois Cherrie.
Not Pictured: Pam Luman, Sylvia
Huette,PhD, Jeanne Burke, Louise
Rachal 25
FACULTY
ANATOMY
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Robert D. Yates, Mary B.
PhD Anderson, PhD
Chairman/ Endocrinology
Cytochemistry
Gerald S. Kirby,
PhD
Biomechanics
Joseph A.
Mascorro, BS
Neurocytology
l-Li Chen, PhD
Immunocytoche-mistry
Richard W.
Rieck, PhD
Neuroanatomy
Robert Vaupel,
PhD
Histology
mAiM M^^. ^k '"J.^ \ V
Catherine C. lames R. Jeter, Leon B. Walker
Cusick, PhD PhD PhD
Neuroanatomy Cell Biology Kinesiology
Edward Peebles,
PhD
Embryology
Joseph T. Weber, Richard Harlan,
PhD PhD
Neuroanatomy Neuroanatomy
BIOCHEMISTRY
Rune L.
Stjernholm, PhD William H.
Chairman/ Baricos, PhD
Chemothera- Enzymology
peutics
N
Yu-Teh Li, PhD
Chemical
Pathology
James E.
Muldrey, PhD
Nutrition
William Cohen, Melanie Ehrlich, Eugene Hamori,
PhD PhD! Molecular PhD
Enzymology Biology
^ o t- 1
Manie K.
Stanfield, PhD
Bio-organic
Chemistry
Richard H.
Steele, PhD
Cellular
Energetics
phD^'*"'
^°"' ^'"- Hamori and DNA discuss tactics for
Phospholipid the invaslofi.
Metabolism
26
COMMUNITY MEDICINE GENETICS
Joseph T.
Hamrick, MD,
MPH
Director/Health
Care
Administration
George Mitchell, Irwin Cohen,
MD, MPH MD, MPH & TM
Health Care Infectious
Systems Disease/Pediatrics
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Emmanuel Maria Varela, Jean Lockyer
Shapira, MD, MD PhD
PhD Cytogenetics Molecular
Director, Genetics
Hayward Genetics
Center
PARASITOLOGY
Barnett L. Cline, H. Norberl Thomas C. M. Dale Little, Mark Weiser,
MD, PhD, MPH Lanners, PhD Orihel, PhD PhD PhD
Chairman
Mark )ames, PhD A. Maiek, PhD
MICROBIOLOGY
A. Arthur
Gottlieb, MD
Chairman/
Immunology
Emmett ).
lohnson, PhD
Microbial
Genetics
John D. Judith K. Domer, Gerald J. Robert F. Garry,
Clements, PhD PhD Domingue, PhD Jr., PhD
Enteric Pathogens Mycology Renal Virology
Bacteriology
',:.;,.... '.J 'tfcfe' •ml
Mary K. Johnson, Laura S. Levy,
PhD PhD
Bacterial Toxins Virology
Patricia A.
Mayeux, MS
Laboratory
Instructor
A.K.A. "Microbius the Magnificent"
27
PHYSIOLOGY
L. Gabriel Navar, Norman R. Marian R.
PhD Kreisman, PhD Walters, PhD
Chairman/Renal Neurophysiology Endocrinology
Physiology
Ceoffrev C. Kenneth D.
Schoiield, PhD Mitchell, PhD
Neurophysiology Renal Physiology
Faculty on Sabbatical
John Fox, PhD
Calcium
Homeostasis
Robert F. Lowe,
PhD
Cardiovascular
Physiology
Richard C. Vari,
PhD
Renal Function
Pamela K.
Carmines, PhD
Renal
Hemodynamic
Function
PATHOLOGY
David L.
Williams, PhD
Immuno-physiology
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Michael A.
Gerber, MD
Chairman/Hepatic
Pathology
Philip Daroca, Jr, MD
Surgical/
Pulmonary
Pathology
H. Nina
Dhurandhar,
MBBS,DCP
Surgical/
Cytopathology
Kenneth "Barl"
Farris, MD
Clinical Pathology
Lynn Bernal-
Green, MD
Microbiology/
Hematology
)ames C. Harkin, Friedrichs Harris, Pamela C.
MD MD Martin, MD
Neuropathology Surgical Pathology Surgical Pathology
i^ -> I
Donald R.
Pulitzer, MD
Surgical/Derma-topathology
28
Richard ). Reed,
MD
Surgical/Derma-topathology
Norberto A.
Schor, MD
Surgical/
Carcinogenesis
Patrick D.
Walker, MD
Surgical/Renal
Pathology
Harry T. Pigman,
MD
Clinical Pathology
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
April G.
O'Quinn, MD
Acting Chairman/
Gynecological
Oncology
Manoj K. Biswas,
MD
Maternal-Fetal
Studies
Simie Degefu,
MD
Gynecological
Oncology
John C. Weed,
MD
Gynecology
Carol Wheeler,
MD
Endocrinology
Roberta Gollin,
MD
Obstetrics/
Gynecology
Eduardo Herrera, Pamela J. Moore, Paul R. Summers, Ian Thorneycroft
MD PhD MD MD, PhD
Gynecology Course Director Infectious Disease Endocrinology
SURGERY
f-'» *»-
I Lewis M. Flint, Watts R. Webb,
MD MD
, Chairman/Trauma Past Chairman/CT
' Surgery Surgery
I. William
Browder, MD
General Surgery
A
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Edward
Etheredge, MD
Transplantation
"'"'WtM
Lawrence S. Fox, William D. lames W.C.
MD Hardin, MD Holmes, MD
Cardio-Thoracic Pediatric Surgery Colo-Rectal
Surgery Surgery
Morris D. Edward T.
Kerstein, MD Krementz, MD
Vascular Surgery Oncological
Surgery
Martin S. Litwin, Norman Peter V.
MD McSwain, )r, MD Moulder, MD
General Surgery Emergency/ CT/Vascular
Trauma Surgery Surgery
Patricia James H. Ronald L.
Moynihan, MD Muchmore, MD Nichols, MD
Pediatric Surgery Oncological Infectious Disease
Surgery
^wJUT' 'iHBic'" em I
Joseph Nigliazzo, Samuel Parry,
Jr, RN MD
ACLS/ATLS Plastic Surgery
Daniel S. Rush, Carl M. William M.
MD Sutherland, MD Swartz, MD
Vascular Surgery Oncological Plastic Surgery
Surgery
29
PHARMACOLOGY
James W. Fisher, Krishna C.
PhD Agrawal, PhD
Chairman/Hema- Cancer
topharmacology Chemolherapv
Floyd R. Domer,
PhD
Anesthesia
Pharmacology
William J.
George, PhD
Toxicology
Paul S. Guth,
PhD
Neuropharmaco-logy
Philip J.
Kadowitz, PhD
Cardiovascular
Pharmacology
Juan J.L. Lertora, Dennis B.
MD, PhD McNamara, PhD
Clinical Subcellular
Pharmacology Pharmacology
Barbara
Beckman, PhD
Hemalopharma-cology
Craig W.
Clarkson, PhD
Cardiac
Pharmacology
PSYCHIATR Y/NEUROLOGY
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Daniel K. Richard Dalton, Jorge Daruna, Arthur W. Edward F. Foulks, Donald M. James R. Gay,
Winstead, MD )r, MD PhD Epstein, MD MD, PhD Gallant, MD PhD
Chairman/Adult Child Psychiatry Child Psychology Adult Psychiatry Adult Psychiatry Substance Abuse Child Psychology
Psychiatry
Philip T. Griffin,
PhD
Adult Psychology
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Jerome S. Hailer, Robert G. Heath, David hi. Mieike, Patrick Jose M. Pena, Pailyath Sarala,
MD MD MD O'Neill, MD MD MD
Child Neurology Professor Adult Psychiatry Adult Psychiatry Adult Psychiatry VA-Neurology
Emeritus
Barry D.
Schwartz, PhD
Adult Psychology
Morteza
Shamsnia, MD
Neurology
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Antonio Stazio, Samuel A. Michael Wall, Leon A.
MD Trufant, MD MD Weisberg, MD
VA-Neurology VA-Neurology Neurology Neurology
30
MEDICINE
Attila Ertan, MD
Acting Chairman/
Gastroenterology
C. Thorpe Ray,
MD
Past Acting
Chairman/
Cardiology
German
Mora-Bellran,
MD
Res. Dir. Heme-
Onc
Mary R. Gervais
Program
Coordinator
Deborah Naurang M. W. Abe Andes Suzanne
Abernathy, MD Agrawal, MD Hematology/ Bergman, MD
Hematology/ Gastroenterology Oncology Nephrology
Oncology
Dennis W. Robert E. Burch, Emmell B. Eileen M. Cook,
Boulware, MD MD Chapital, MD MD
Rheumatology Clinical Nutrition Internal Medicine Nephrology
Dean B.
Ellithorpe, MD
Clinical
Pulmonology
Thomas D. Giles, Oren B. Gum,
MD MD, PhD
VA-Chief/ Rheumatology
Cardiology
Charles G.
Haddad, MD
Internal Medicine
Robert A. Newton E. Robert N. Jones, Guler Karciogiu, Peter F. Kohler, N. Kevin Krane, Juan Lertora, Manuel Lopez,
Hammer, MD Hyslop, MD MD MD MD MD MD, PhD MD
Gastroenterology Infectious Disease Pulmonary Internal Medicine Clinical Nephrology Clinical Immunology
Medicine Immunology Pharmacology
Gary E. Sander,
MD, PhD
Cardiology
Sudhir V. Shah,
MD
Nephrology
Walter J.
Stuckey, MD
Hematology/
Oncology
Karl Tornyos,
MD
VA-Hematology/
Oncology
John D. Wallin,
MD
Nephrology
Hans Weill, MD
Pulmonary
Medicine
31
ANESTHESIOLOGY
Alan W.
Grogono, MD
Chairman
Donald E. Smith,
MD
Stanley Bienasz,
MD
Laura Kay Diaz,
MD
Michael Francis,
MD
Michael D. Gold,
MD
Jonathan )ahr,
MD
Kenneth Kuchta,
MD
leff E. Mandel
MD
Sheryl Smith,
MD
PEDIATRICS
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John E. Lewy,
MD
Chairman/
Nephrology
Robert
Beckerman, MD
Pulmonology
Franklin Boineau,
MD
Nephrology
Scott H. Davis,
MD
Pulmonology
Daniel A. Deane,
MD
Pulmonology
W. Michael
DeVoe, MD
Neonatology
Robert L.
Hopkins, MD
Pulmonology
James R.
Humbert, MD
Hematology/
Oncology
Dahlia
Kirkpatrick, MD
Hematology/
Oncology
Katherine M.
Knight, MD
Ambulatory
Pediatrics
Arthur S. Pickoff,
MD
Pediatric
Cardiology
Jane E. Reynolds,
MD
Neonatology
Jean Takenaka,
MD, MPH
Neonatology/
Public Health
32
Russell Van
Dyke, MD
Infectious Disease
Nell Pape
Waring, MD
Allergy/
Immunology
William W.
Waring, MD
Pulmonology
James A. Wright,
MD
Gastroenterology
Johnette M.
Frentz, MD
Endocrinology
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William L. Gill,
MD
Neonatology
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Margaret Smith, Thomas G.
MD Storch, MD
Infectious Disease Neonatology
RADIOLOGY
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Arvin E.
Robinson, MD
Chairman
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Charles M. Nice, Richard |.
Jr., MD Campeau, MD
Kundan L.
Gupta, MD
Daniel R.
Backlas, MD |in Sup Park, MD Dinko Plenkovich John R. Ceshner,
BS
Branko Plavsic,
MD, PhD
DERMATOLOGY
Larry E. Millikan, James S. Storer, Joseph Shrum, Peter Simoneaux,
MD, FACP MD MD MD
Chairman
EDITOR'S NOTE: Some faculty were
unfortunately not available to be photo-graphed
in time for this printing. Others
are those who were responsible for our
teaching and have since moved on to oth-er
institutions. Please excuse any discre-pancies.
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Clockwise from top: Nam L. and Dr.
Ayette. Barry R. as Vanna White. David S.
and date at Cadaver Ball. Eric B. on a
mission.
Clockwise from above: Cedric C. as Dr.
Mascara; Jeanne G. and Linda N. flipping
through their lab manual; Kevin Jackson.
Lee T., Brent C, and Tom P. preparing for
their skit;
37
T-l Labs
Clockwise from top: Lisa W. and Chris C.
dissecting; Lab F; Lab E; Lab D.
Opposite page: Clockwise from top -
Lab A; Lab B; Lab C; Dr. Weber casually
lecturing before a Neuroscience exam; Eric
B. and David L. observe Lianne H. dissect-ing.
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bare; Bare the Bear - Pay your
Note Service Dues sign; Rich Capiola.
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Top: Thea D. and Bruce B., another Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Left: Howard
S. as Dr. Weber. Above: Class adjourned.
43
THE TERRIBLE TWO'S
44 Let's parly! Ah, the good life!
Croup study. Hey, those are mine! 45
Mardi Gras
Hey! Throw me somethin' Mister.
Showing offsome anatomy and creating a stir.
THE HIPPOCRA TIC PLA VERS
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CANTONI
The Tulane School of Medicine, Class of 1990
J;L#i^/«^ / PRESENTS
wj relive the days of
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Chat ianooga C hoo-Choo
Bo o )>ie -Woogie Bugle Boy
Blue Moon, T u x edo J unc t ion
"T —^ T T"l
The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Bear
mean Wolf). Including: The Country Pig,
The Opera Pig, The Punk Pig, and of
course the Saxophone playing Wolf.
Also, Pippin from March of 1989.
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Steve the Ortho Machine a
Chris performing acupuncture I
Flora McConnell I
Hat Day on Pediatrics
Staying awake in Surgery Bullpen I
i Dr. "B's" Gang
» Jon Hard at Work
Lee in the PICU »
Melanie waiting for her beeper to go off
The Real Bartles and James »
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Mike Pohlod on Surgery Unknown Brain, Post Call The Charitv Hilton
Surgery Bullpen
Drew Lashus demonstrates anatomy
Byron May warming his
parasympathetics
Lunch Time!
Charity Hospital
Rich Capiola at Pineville
Chris Harmon on Obstetrics
Del obtaining a Bleeding time
Rounds in the Peds closet
Uejn Hjcknwn, Procedure oriented /'•) < liuinsf
Above: Would you
like a breast or a
wing? (below)
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snack.
Below: Dave and
Tom on the run.
Left:
Is this a Mudbug?
Right: Jeanne, Albert
and Janine
Above: Stacy and Jim
Below: Amy Landa and Stephen Spalding
Above: Mr. HIV and his fabulous Antibody
Below: One Big Happy Family
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Carole Fetzer and a Thalidomide statue
SLEEP LAB
DR. RAY
C. Thorpe Ray, M.D. is as familiar to
students as their stethoscopes. The art of
auscultation is his specialty. Student teach-ing
is his vocation. Dr. Ray, born in Hutto,
Texas, obtained his medical degree from
the University of Texas Medical School, at
Galveston. He interned at Scott and White
Hospital, Temple, Texas, and did his inter-nal
medicine residency at Parkland Hospi-tal
in Dallas, Texas.
Or. Ray first joined the Tulane medical
faculty as an instructor in 1945. He soon
was appointed Assistant Professor of Medi-cine
and Director of Tulane's heart station,
and in 1952, was promoted to Associate
Professor. From 1958 to 1967, Dr. Ray
served as Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Internal Medicine at the
University of Missouri. He returned to
New Orleans for a post at Alton Ochsner
Medical Foundation and a clinical profes-sorship
in Internal Medicine at Tulane. He
served as chairman of Internal Medicine at
Tulane from 1975 to 1982, and Acting
Chairman from 1987 to 1989. Professor
Emeritus since 1988, Dr. Ray hasn't
slowed a single beat.
Rounds and CHNO morning report with
Dr. Ray are very special events. Former
Chancellor John Walsh described Dr.
Ray's rounds as "something like Mardi
Cras, except you might catch pearls in-stead
of beads."
Dr. Ray, we salute you!
Teaching Heart Murmurs in Physical Diagnosis. Morning Report at Charity.
61
Melanie Baron writes a SOAP note. Beverly Chaignaud Kathy C. gets "bullied"
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Terrence Trentman Ralph K., Last minute cramming Jim Cernilia
THESLUDES
THE LADS OF PHI CHI Below: The Zip
Below: A fine tradition of partying
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Above: Slappy proudly
displays his entry in the
bladder bust competition
Left: Commie
Left: The Master
69
Are You An ORTHOPOD?
football carried as a reminder of his "glory
days" as captain of the football team
racquetball goggles to protect against splashing bodily
fluids and bone chips, (also worn on racquetball court 2
nights a week).
cerebral disuse atrophy despite memorizing extensive dif-ferential:
Vbone broke 2)bone not broke
stethescope only used on the "pod point": the lower
chest location at which "RRR 5 R/M/C", "CTA" an
"+ BS" are all quickly determined
frontal bossing,
orthopedic definition of heart: muscular or
gan in chest used to pump Kefzol to bone""
femur: used as a pointer and to fight off,
avaricious lawyers
flea repellent:
ortho hammer, goniometer and trauma used to keep
scissors: tools of the trade for this "Car- medicine docs
penter of the skeletal system" ^^away
sum total of
orthopedic
knowledge: hasn't
finished coloring
all the pictures yet
expensive athletic shoes,
enthouse
centerfold:
UH ^. ER
. . . More
anatomy
study
material.
Yeah, that's
it!
barbell: the pod lifts weights regularly. As the saying
goes, "An orthopod is as strong as an ox, and twice as
smart."
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ARE YOU AN INTERNIST?
FMG (Foreign Medical Graduate)
Bloodshot eyes
Stethescope
Aching shoulders from overstuffed jac
Armed and ready
Full stomach from free
lunch with drug reps
Otoscope:
Batteries worn out
EKG: needs Cardiology
consult to interpret
Everything You Always
Wanted To Know About
Medicine but didn't have
the Time to Read
Red top: drawn last week
and forgot to drop off at lab
Tape measure: not long enough
to measure abdominal girth
of cirrhotic patient
Comer stick
Beeper: Likes vibratory mode best
TED hose for extra support
Loafers: No time to tie shoelaces
Fallen arches from standing all day
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Are you An OB/GYN?
Another Day At The
Orifice
Bags under eyes: Up all night start-ing
IV's and birthing babies
Wheel of Torture;
eeks EGA
Bankrupt
You are being sued!
Culturettes: Takes them on dates
Bulb suction: Makes a great bath toy,
Baby's mother, GC, is a 16 y.o. G4P3
with previous C-section of un-known
scar and no PNC who pre-sents
with CC of, "O, lordee, lor-,
dee, lordee, lordee ... my water
bag broke!"
Tape measure: Takes it on dates too
Meconium stain after 3 washings
Reebok protectors: Slip-sliding in
copious amounts of amniotic slime
"My Maneuvers" by Leopold
"Jurisprudence Malpracti-cus"
by I.M. Asnake, J.D.
"Double Footling Breech, Behind the BackT
and Other Fancy Deliveries" by M. Biswas
Reflex hammer:
Useful tool for
checking signs of
pre-eclampsia and
for knocking out
screaming tachy-lordees
Speculum:
Warmed and lu-bricated
Fetal Monitor Strip:
1) Uterine con-t
ract ions 2)
Dow-Jones In-dustrial
Average
Are You A PEDIATRICIAN?
Able to do instantaneous conver
sions without calculator
Ear plugs to block out loud cryi
Blanket to hide stain on shoulder of
jacket where baby threw up
Panda on stethescope: Diver-sionary
tactics
HEAL Loans: never to be paid off
Portable camera-to remember cutest kids
Water-logged pinky from baby sucking
Tool box for those late night me-conium
babies
Chronic rhinitis
Never really quite grew up
Harriet Lane
Insufflator: Has only created one
pneumocephaly
You always thought you wanted to be a
veterinarian
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Are You A PSYCHIATRIST?
Freud's book of dream analysis
Skinner box for behavior modifi
cation training
Owns stock in Haldol
Newspaper; Scans police reports daily
for familiar patient names
Dr. Ruth's # for quick consultation on pa-tients
with sexual dysfunction
Coffee to prevent falling asleep
DSM-lll-R
Knife: Confiscated from
passive-aggressive patient
last week
Travel magazines; Where to go
Fake smile: Trying
to look interested
Oral fixation
Emergency Ha\-
S dol for uncoo-
??''?* perative pa-tients
Stethescope on
chair: Forgot what
it's used for
Tennis racket; 2:00 game
No facial hair: Needs to work on being a REAL psychiatrist
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Are You A DERMATOLOGIST?
"Scaly, sweaty, red, itchy palms, you say?"
Jeez, 1 don't know what she's got!
Think, think!
"Madam, you have Hyperhidrotic Lichen Chronicus
Erythematosus with Pruritus Palmaris!"
Slide carousel at the ready for those im
promptu talks on favorite subject, "Her
pes; It's Forever"
Color-coordinated to
match interior of new
Porsche Cabriolet
Smile caused by new grant for Retin-A research
Heroic self-experimentation with Minoxidil
Gift from latest drug rep
SPF-122 Multipurpose PABA-tree
sunscreen for golf and/
or tennis
,"Ever-Soft": Newest
product from Dinero
Pharmaceuticals
Comfortable shoes for
sitting
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Are You a RADIOLOGIST?
Sunglasses to prevent glare of viewbox
Last film of the day: I guess it's luncfitinne
Hotlight: Actually portable sun
lamp used for quick tanning be
tween films
Too much radiation exposure may be
cause of two-headed offspring
WOW! Look at those breast shadows!
Radiation tag
White jacket missing
Dictaphone:
Too lazy to
write
elbow
Padded seat cushion
for prevention of
hemorrhoids
Likes being confined to small dark rooms
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Are You UNDECIDED?
I'm doing a transitional internship, obviously . .
.
or should I do Medicine ... or Surgery? Psych ... no ... I have enough problems of my own
I could do General Surgery . . . what am I, nuts?!
Ophthalmology or ENT would be great a little
Medicine, a little Surgery, but I'm not AOA
^^^^5.. ^l^
Pediatrics is nice, but I could never pay off
my loans
Pathology would be o.k., but I enjoy talk-ing
with my patients
Radiology . . . great hours, great lifestyle,
but I want to have kids some day
Ah . . . Derm . . . what a life . . but who
wants to look at zits all day?!
I could always get my MBA or go to Law School
Medicine . . . then I could be a REAL doctor
OB/CYN: Malpractice insurance is too high
Plastic Surgery; My mom always wanted a face-lift
Anesthesia: I'd have to work with surgeons all day
Radiation Oncology: Too depressing
I
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when I Grow Up . .
.
Above: (A) Rick Levy; (B) Sophia Llorens; (C) James Stallworth; (D) Kevin Callerame; (E) Rich Capiola; (F) Parthenia Wong; (G) Janine Coles
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Pictured Above: (A) Stacy Tompkins; (B) Dean Hickman; (C) Robert Hernandez; (D) Peter Lucore; (E) Jenny Huang.
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A) Colleen Hawthorne B) Janet Spraggins C) Mike Wilson D) Joan Cheng E) Lisa Donofrio F) Larry Caldwell G) Angela Barthe
H) Mike Gross I) Lisa Donofrio J) Eric Barry K) Lianne Hanson 8i
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A) Thea Davies B) Michelle Boyer C) Mike Beat D) Matthew Money
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A) Chris Comstock B) John Carey C) Terry Trentman D) Pam Okada E) Kevin Jackson F) Jim Rhorer
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A) Byron May B) Curtis Andersen C) Christopher Hinnant D) Amy Landa E) Beverly Chaignaud F) Lee Thornton
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(A)Ralph Katz, (B) Sue Bator, (C) David Islam, (D) Marl Kamlmura, (E) Barry Resnik, (F) David Weist, (G) Ricky
Buenaventura
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COUPLES AND FAMILIES
Dave and Shari Levitats Kevin and Cheryl Albert and Jeanne
The Haynes Family The Andersen Family
Mike and Susan Beat
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The Weist Family
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Mike and Melanie Christina
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Barry and Marcy Resnik
The Nelson Family
The Darr Family
The Trentman Family
The Hardy Family 89
WMWWMMWtWW
Alon Aharon
New York
Mitchell Albrecht
Utah
Jeffrey Alexander
Maryland
Bruce Bainton
California
Curtis Andersen
California
Rachel Baranco
Louisiana
Melanie Baron
Georgia
Michael Beat
Kansas
Eric Barry
Louisiana
Angela Barthe
Louisiana
Michele Boyer
California
Suzanne Bator
Connecticut
James Bunker
Virginia
Larry Caldwell
Mississippi
Kevin Callerame
Arizona
Richard Capiola
Mississippi
John Carey
Michigan
Joel Carney
California
John Carson
Florida
Jameb Cernilia
California
Beverly Chaignaud
Louisiana
David Chamberlain
Utah
Melanie Owen Christina
Texas
Janine Coles
Louisiana
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Christopher Comstock
California
Robert Cooke
Mississippi
Kathy Crispell
Louisiana
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Anthony Cucuzzella
Delaware
Thea Davies
Arizona
Lisa Donofrio
Connecticut
Delverne Dressel
Maryland
David Dyslin
Tennessee
Carole Fetzer
Pennsylvania
Lori Gardner
Child Prodigy
Christopher Foster
Texas
Lori Gardner
California
Lianne Hanson
California
R. Scott Hanson
Massachusetts
Gordon Hardy
Alabama
Christopher Harmon
Mississippi
Colleen Hawthorne
New York
H. Scott Haynes
California
Christopher Hebert
Louisiana
Robert Hernandez
Florida
Dean Hicl<man
Louisiana
Christopher Hinnant
New Jersey
Stephen Hopkins
Illinois
Jenny Huang
Louisiana
William Hughes
California
David Islam
Delaware
John Jackson
Louisiana
William Jackson
Tennessee
Ross Judice
Louisiana
Tyler Jung
California
Mari Kamimura
California
Ralph Katz
Louisiana
John Kuratani
California
John Lam
California
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Amalia Landa
Florida
Andrew Lashus
Illinois
Samuel Lee
California
David Levitats
Florida
Richard Levy
Louisiana
Jenae Limoges
California
Sophia Llorens
Louisiana
Albert Lo
Illinois
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Sherri Longo
Louisiana
Peter Lucore
Louisiana
Peter Lund
Louisiana
Richard Makuch
New York
Majid Mani
California
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Geoffrey Mann
Florida
Mark Margolis
West Virginia
Paul Marshburn
California
Byron May
Mississippi
Mark McCarthy
Louisiana
Flora McConnell
Florida
Gregory Meredith
California
John Missry
Rhode Island
Matthew Money
California
Linda Nakanishi
Hawaii
Stephen Nelson
Arizona
Pamela Okada
California
Christopher Paddock
California
Mark Parkulo
West Virginia
Thomas Phillips
Louisiana
Barry Resnik
Florida
Richard Revis
California
James Rhorer
Louisiana
Steven Rinehouse
New York
Georgia Roane
Louisiana
Ann Roussel
Louisiana
Lynne Schmid
Wyoming
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David Schroeder
New Jersey
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Ronnie Sheena
Texas
Grace Shin
Louisiana
Jonathan Simon
Florida
Ellen Slaven
California
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Louisiana
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Stephen Spalding
Tennessee
Janet Spraggins
Alabama
James Stallworth
Tennessee
Arnie Tannenbaum
Florida
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Lee Thornton
Mississippi
Jill Tirpack
New Jersey
Pinky Tiwari
Mississippi
Patrick Tomeny
Louisiana
Terrence Trentman
California
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Richard Wassermann
Pennsylvania
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Lisa Weisinger
Connecticut
David Weill
Louisiana
David Weist
California
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Richard Zweifler
New Jersey
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t2^he tS^maw-fJicaiittne
Dreaded Disease Strikes Tulane
DX: Senioritis
Give me your women . . . now!
F1....V- ^:,,^.-_.^^
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Keep rowing, only 300 more miles to Belize
Monkey see, Monkey do Dave, Mari, and Jenny in search ot Godzilla in Tokyo
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Me and Dave Dave?
A toast to my friends in Colombia
Flex Practice Question
Identify:
1
)
Jaws
2) Flipper
A) 1 , 2 and 3
B) 1 and 3
C) 2 and 4
D) 4 only
E) All of the above
3) Jaques Cousteau
4) Sue Bator
Enjoying a Tulane game at the Dome
Waiting for that lousy intern to answer your page!
Running the Crescent City Classic
The two most notorious druglords of Medellin
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Mickey, Goofy, Dumbo, Donald, Pluto, and Grumpy Laurianne, Ellen and Rich in Jamaica
Ralph, Jamie, and Chris spend a day on the water Ralph doing Rays in Hawaii
Chris studying the sounds of turbulent flow Jamie's Wedding
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To The Class Of 1990
Mitch: We proudly congratulate our the best! - Mom and Dad. tineu to achieve all your goals and
favorite M.D. Be Excellent, Dude! dreams.
Mom and Gang Eileen, Brian, and Kathy Carey Love; Dad, Mom, Dave and Barb
We're very proud of you, and wish you Your parents proudly congratulate you. Congratulations, Chris Foster.
and Malinka success and happiness. )im C! Love, Mom, Dad, Mike and Danny
Congratulations!
Mom and Dad, Alice and Jay Congratulations, Janine!! You did it Lori. You climbed the moun-
With great pride and affection tain. Dr. Lori Gardner, Wow! You make
Congratulations Bruce! Mom, Dad, Lisa, Ellen, and Trey! us very proud. Bravo! Enjoy! We love
With Love Mom, Dad, Roland, James, you.
and Grandma Congratulations Chris Comstock. Chris
we're so proud of you.
Bud, Dot, And Jill Gardner
Congratulations Eric! We are so proud Love from Mom, Dad and Susan Congratulations, Michael!
of you! Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gross and Family
Love, your Family Congratulations, Steve!!! Another goal
achieved!!! We are all proud of you. Congratulations to the newest
Congratulations, Angela! We are proud Your parents and sisters Dr. Gundzik
of you. We knew you could do it!
Your parents and family Best of luck to Tony and the Class of Best wishes Jeanne
1990. With love from your Family
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boyer are so proud of
daughter Michele. Thea Kay, you have achieved your Lianne. Congratulations on fulfilling
lifelong dream. We are very proud of your lifetime dream.
Mission accomplished Larry you. Patients await your healing graces. Love from all the proud family
Louis and Loretta Caldwell and Family. Mom, Dad, Bryn and Deg Davies
Congratulations, Chris H.!
A goal achieved. We are very proud of Lisa, you did it!! Congratulations on Love, Dad, Mom, Greg, Gerry, Edward
you and we love you. your finest performance!
Congratulations, Callerame Family Love and Best Wishes, God has blessed us through you. Con-
Mom, "Pops", Dayle, and Sid G. gratulations, Robert.
Dr. Caplola: Good show! We are very All our love. Mom and Dad
proud. Ready to go shrimping? We love Congratulations, Del!!
you. Family Dad Dean, we're very proud of you.
Your wife, Cindy, Mom & Family
Congratulations J. Carey, M.D. You're Congratulations, Carole!! May you con-
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straight From The Heart
Congratulations, Dr. Hinnant. We are You did it Sophia! Mom and Dad Love, Mom and Dad
so very proud of you!!
We love you. Dr. Geoff S. Mann: A proud and splen- Congratulations, Arnie!
Ivlom, Dad, Jamie, Julie, Sara did moment for us all. A lifelong dream fulfilled.
Your loving family. Proudly, Mom, Dad, and Family
Love and congratulations, Steve, an-other
sixth-generation Hopkins physi- To Byron May,"Congrats Champ!" Lee . . . We are so proud of you!!
cian. Mother and Dad
Your Ivlom and Dad Congratulations, Richard M., on this
Dr. and Ivlrs. Donald Ivl. Hopkins splendid occasion. Dr. Stacy, congratulations!! Jiang you
Much Love, very much for being so special.
Cod bless you Will. — Ivlom and Dad Your Parents and Sister Love, Mother and Dad
Congratulations, J. Kevin, M.D. Congratulations, Paul! We share your Congratulations, Dr. Trentman! We are
Johnny, Ruby and Lori Jackson joy. so proud of you.
Love, Mom and Dad Dad & Mom, Mike, Laralee Trentman
No more tuition — finally thru. IVI.D. at Loretta & Robert Hay
last — we're proud of you! Matt, you did it and we love you.
Mom, Dad, IVIark, and Seth Kronemer With pride and gratitude. Mazeltov, Lisa
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Money Fourth generation M.D.
We got your message: Love Mother, Dad, Roxanne, Barbara,
"Mom and Dad 1 made it"!! A dream fulfilled, Barry! and Melissa Sue
If anyone deserved a special dream- Congratulations and Love!!
come true . . . It's you Amy — we love Mom and Dad Resnik Dr. Mike, we are proud of you!
you so much!! Mom, Dad, Richard and Katie
Mom, Dad, and the entire family Hooray for Jim! We rejoice with you.
All the Rhorers Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Wong proudly
Congratulations, Alex!! congratulate Parthenia on her becom-
It will be great, greater, and greatest. Janet, may you be blessed ing an M.D.
Parents and sisters As you have blessed others
Wayne, Wynelle, and Lynn The Zweifler's congratulate Rich on the
We are so proud. Rick L. As always. fulfillment of his dream!!
Dr. and Mrs. Julius Levy and Family Way to go, Jim Stallworth!!
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A Reading From The Book of Episiotomy
Chapter 5, Vv. 3-0 to 6-0 Chromic
And the LORD spake unto Neohomo, who was called Kliph, saying unto him:
"Gather ye my CHOSEN, who shall number sevenscore and one that you
might instructeth them in the ways of healing. Bring them to this place that
I have appointed, which place shall henceforth be called Toolain, meaning
'the appointed place.' Gather them from all the land; yea, verily, even from
the furthest hinterlands, Kali-phonya and Nyauk, so that they might hear the
words of healing."
And Kliph did as the LORD instructed, bringing Toolain the best and brightest,
that they might learn the healing arts. And when he had gathered together
the CHOSEN, Kliph called out unto the LORD, saying, "Oh LORD, I have
done as thou hast commanded me. Mightily have I struggled, thy wish to
fulfill. See thou, I have brought Greeks, and Abrahams, and workers of gold;
verily have I striven to bring a diverse class hereunto."
And the LORD spake unto Kliph, saying unto him, "Thou hast indeed fulfilled
my wishes. Oh Kliph; and I am mightily pleased with thy handiwork, although
I see ill for this one who smiths with gold. Nevertheless, thou hast done a
good job, and as reward therefore, thou shalt henceforth be called Associate
Dean of Admissions, despite the obvious anachronism. Know thou that I shall
test these, my CHOSEN, mightily, lest they fall from the ways of grace. Many
hardships and tribulations shall they endure, and often shall they be tested,
yea, to start with shall they be tested after each Sabbath, with rare exceptions.
Great shall be the knowledge they will learn, and it won't be easy, let me tell
thee. And know thou that they shall be tested even after graduation, and
afflicted with insurance agents and other such foul creatures, yet in so long
as they follow my law, so long shall they prevail."
And the LORD began the testing of the CHOSEN. And the first plague that
He sent upon them was the fiend Anatomie. And yet the people prevailed
against Anatomie, stuffing their minds full of useless trivia; so much so, that
the one called Abraham became upset, shouting forth his wrath to the
CHOSEN. Fortunately, they ignored him. Others of the CHOSEN reacted to
this volume of information more strangely: some embellishing class notes,
others by publishing poor attempts at humorous newspapers. And often did
these attempts fail.
And during this time there rose up among the CHOSEN two great leaders,
who were called Skaat, Han's son, and Da'ano. And they took upon
themselves the task of organizing a great celebration for the CHOSEN, to
commemorate the victory over the fiend Anatomie. And mightily did the
CHOSEN celebrate this victory, despite the unsightly dwelling. And the Lord
saw these celebrations, and He chuckled, saying unto Kliph, "They still don't
realize what the've gotten themselves into, do they, Kliph?" And Kliph
replied, "No, my LORD."
And yet, despite their ignorance (or perhaps because of it), the CHOSEN
prospered, and continued to learn the arts of the healer, as the LORD wished.
And as the LORD had foreseen, he who smithed gold fared poorly, and was
lost to the CHOSEN; and so too were many others, who also fared poorly
(though not as poorly as the smith).
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And the CHOSEN continued in their struggle, and the LORD continued His testing
thereof. Truly did he test them, sending upon them the plague Biokemm, And yet
even this did the CHOSEN master, despite lectures on all variety of flora like
mushrooms. And in this time did the Levite, called Lynne, set about the task of
chronicling the adventures of the CHOSEN.
And the LORD continued the testing of his PEOPLE, with the plagues Paath and
Phaarm and Peedee. And He sent upon the CHOSEN the monsters Djonsun, who
knew much of famous dead physicians, and Doam-a, who knew much of unknown
dead words. And when the CHOSEN had bested these trials, the LORD spoke unto
them, saying,"Verily dost thou, my CHOSEN, walk in the paths of righteousness,
and follow my teaching. And therefore shall I send thee my greatest trial."
And then began the year of greatest toil and labor and deliveries, called the Junior
Year for reasons now lost. And the CHOSEN were afflicted with the most horrible
of all the plagues wherewith the LORD tested them, which plague he called SKUTT.
And the LORD afflicted them with boils, and vesicles, and maculopapular
eruptions, and lumbago, and dropsy, and consumption, and pleurisy; and He sent
against them all manner of vicious creatures: terns, and tigers of Elisu, and crabs,
and red snappers, and trolls, and Roaches, and sloths who operated terrible
machines to carry people up and down but would never stop for the CHOSEN, and
verily even did the Lord send chief residents to plague the PEOPLE, and the Big
Beeper, and the Big Sneeze, and the Upper Motor Neurons, and even these the
CHOSEN vanquished.
And at the end of the year, the LORD said unto the CHOSEN, "Now mayest thou
rest, for truly hast thou struggled and overcome the Trials I have sent upon you. And
now truly art thou studs. Co forth and celebrate this victory; make merry, and
frolick thou one year, because the hard part
comes next. For at the end of that year, truly
shalt thou enter in the very valley of the shadow
of Death; and as you know, valleys are between
hills, and we all know what rolls down hills."
And the CHOSEN did as the LORD com-manded,
celebrating for one year and sloughing
off their work, for truly were they Senior studs
now. And although they thought about the
tribulations to come, they didn't think about
them too much, for why spoil a good time?
So endeth this reading from the chronicles of the
CHOSEN of 1990.
Created by Peter Simoneaux, M.D.
Tulane '85
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Tulane
Medical Alumni Association
Best Wishes To The
Class Of 1990!
We Serve.,. The Student
The Alumni, and
The Medical Center
Through.., Alumni News Publications
The Annual Crawfish Boil
Homecoming Activities
Class Reunions
Nationwide Alumni Functions
Student Recognition Awards
The Senior ''Match" Party, and
The Alumni Locating Service
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SKOAL
TO
SCHOOL
FROM THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
BIOCHEMISTRY
Congratulations
To The Class of 1990
from the
Department of Pathology
Tulane University
Medical Center
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
RADIOLOGY
FACULTY
AND
HOUSESTAFF
BEST WISHES
TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM ALL OF US
IN THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
SURGERY
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Class of 1990
Best wishes to all of you and may you have a long and
successful career in the practice of medicine in the years to
come.
From all of us in the Office of Student Affairs to all of you
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children's Hospital congratulates the graduates of the Tulane University
School of Medicine.
Many of you have completed clinical rotations at Children's Hospital in pediatrics,
pediatric subspecialties, pediatric rehabilitative medicine, pediatric orthopaedics,
pediatric surgery, pediatric surgical subspecialties, pediatric radiology and in a
host of other areas. We have been delighted to have you be a part of Children's
Hospital and to see how a union of the Children's Hospital with the private
practicing community and its affiliate institutions, Tulane University and Louisiana
State University, has made us a most dynamic and growing force in pediatric
care in the State of Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast area. We look forward
to continued growth, and we are certain that many of you will be a part of
that growth.
As your residencies and fellowships progress we hope that many of them
will be done in part here and that we will have the opportunity to watch you
grow professionally. We hope that you will be frequent visitors and learn of
the resource of our Children's Hospital in the New Orleans and Louisiana
community.
Congratulations for much happiness and fulfillment in the future.
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
DERMATOLOGY
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TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
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OF
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF
OBSTETRICS
AND GYNECOLOGY
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BEST WISHES TO THE
CLASS OF 1990!
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
ANESTHESIOLOGY
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Best Wishes To The
Class of 1990!
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF
PSYCHIATRY
AND
NEUROLOGY
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THE DEPARTMENT
OF PEDIATRICS
CONGRATULATES
THE GRADUATING
CLASS OF 1990
CONCRA TULA T/ONS
WE WISH YOU
MUCH SUCCESS
J. T. Hamrick; George Mitchell; Irwin Cohen;
Carolyn Roberts; Abigail Landry
The Department of Community Medicine
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
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FROM THE
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TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY
Francis Fraser, M.D. Gary Hurwitz, M.D. Bruce Sloan, M.D.
CONGRATULATIONS
1990 CHIEF RESIDENTS
"GO WITH THE FLOW"
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FROM THE
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CONGRATULATIONS
CLASS OF 1990
FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF
ANATOMY
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THIS IS LIVING!
To Dr. McMahon With Gratitude
From the Lads Of The Class Of 1990
Steve AntrobuB
Chris Comstock
Tony Cucuzzella
Del Dressel
Dave Dyslin
Scott Hanson
Chris Hebert
Chris Hinnant
Will Hughes
Keith Kronemer
Dave Levitats
Rich Makuch
John Missry
Chris Paddock
Mike Pohlod
Jim Stallworth
Arnie Tannenbaum
Ricky Wassermann
Rich Zweifler
/ would rather be a superb meteor, every atom ofme in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The
proper function ofman is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
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Memorable
Dr. Vaupel lecturing us on differentiating the vagina
vs. the esophagus; "Believe me, there's absolutely
no comparison."
"The half-life of truth is rather short."
Dr. Peebles
"What? You're done with the slides already?"
"Yeah, I don't fuck around. Thirty seconds and if I
don't know it, I put it back in the box."
Overheard in Pathology Lab
Dr. Weber scolding the class: "I don't want you
getting Joe and Dr. Reick drunk again. They're very
vulnerable guys."
David Chamberlain to Dr. Baricos: "Do we have to
know this? Not to insult your intelligence or any-thing,
but I'm sure you don't know it."
"Don't worry about your presentation. I forgot to
check the vitals Saturday so I made them up."
Overheard on ward
"It may seem purely like an academic exercise to
master this ambiguous medical terminology. How-ever,
it is better to tell the mother that her child has
scaphocephaly rather than boathead."
Dr. Peebles
"This patient has three neurons; one's infected,
one's infarcted, and the other is inhibitory."
David Levitats
"Being on call violates every principle upon which
a free society is based."
Geoff Mann
"I'm not a gunner . . . Honest"
Anne Roussel to a Resident
"Dyspareunia is better than no pareunia at all."
Sherri Longo
"I was supposed to wear gloves?" — Jamie Bunker
on Medicine after a rather thorough physical exam
of his patient.
"My patient has A+ BSF (bilateral stinky feet)."
Del Dressel
Rich Ferrans doing a mental status exam: "What do
I mean when I say 'Don't count your chickens until
they've hatched?'" Patient's reply: "You mean,
'Don't fuck with me, I'm a black man.'"
Rich Capiola's tips on getting out of tedious retractor
duty in the OR: "Just nick the spleen once and you
don't have to hold the retractor anymore."
"At least my patients think I know what I'm talking
about."
Geoff Mann
"You could always get the mop yourself." — Nurse
atCHNO
"I'll have a BTL to go!" — Grace Shin on OB
"Now that I have reached the culmination of my
second year and my knowledge of the basic sciences
is at its pinnacle, I am fully confident that I can
diagnose any clinical disorder with at least 70%
accuracy on the wards of Charity given 5 choices."
Dave Levitats
In the middle of an aortic aneurysm repair, Chris
Harmon asks the stunning question, "So what ex-actly
are you trying to accomplish?"
Dr. Harlan: "If you know your rectum, go ahead and
skin your legs, then Dr. Moore will come in and
show us her pelvis."
Dr. Nichols' "triple blind study": The patient doesn't
know what he's getting, the nurse doesn't know
what she's giving, and the investigator doesn't know
what he's doing.
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Moments
Barry in Neuroscience: "You really have to work
hard to get anything erotic out of the mamillary
bodies."
Dr. Phillips in his Medicine lecture: "The purpose of
this lecture is not to get the questions right." David
Islam, "Good, then I have achieved the purpose."
While being taught how to scrub at TMC, Sam Lee
asks "What book would you recommend?"
SMA Convention worker to Dave Levitats: "Doctor,
can I help you?" Dave replies "Yeah, gimme some
free stuff!"
Bruce Bainton on Pediatrics: "Shut up, kid or else I'll
stick you again with this needle."
"Oooh, Flora, you didn't! It's a bodily secretion!!"
Ann Roussel
Leslie Snelling, in response to Dr. Thorneycroft's
complaint that he's never asked to give a lecture in
Physiology even though he has a Ph.D. in it, "Do we
HAVE a Physiology Department?"
"I just love not having to wear clothes.
Lisa Weisinger commenting on surgery scrubs.
Upon hearing that the patient who had sustained
multiple fractures was a prostitute, the intern asked,
"I wonder if she can apply for Workman's Compen-sation?"
"That thing dangling between my legs drives me
crazy," Lisa Weisinger's answer when asked why
she tucks in the string on her scrubs.
"It's o.k. to be disoriented on the Psych ward
because no one will notice." (overheard)
"Withdrawal doesn't work. I've got two kids to
prove it."
David Chamberlain
"Ever since I came to medical school, the breast has
been a nightmare to me!" Howard Sharp
Dr. Moore: "Do ya'll give enemas to your OB
patients?"
Steve Spalding: "Unfortunately not!"
OB/GYN male resident to an elderly clinic patient:
"Have you ever had estrogen therapy?"
Patient: "What?"
Dr.: "Have you ever been treated with hormones?"
Pt.: "I don't understand what you mean!"
Dr.: "Have you ever taken those little pills that make
you want it all the time?"
Surgery lecturer: "It's a dead testicle — you must
operate immediately. You can't play with it!"
Howard Sharp: "Not anymore!"
Question to Jackie Dano: "When do you do pro-static
massage?"
Jackie: "Not until the third date."
"If I get this guy to sign his own DNR, do I still have
to write notes on him?" Howard Sharp
"Tulane Medical School is proud of its private
education. In fact it's so private they often keep it
to themselves."
Steve Rinehouse
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A Note From The Ed/tors
Most yearbooks chronicle only a minute slice ofa group ofpeoples' lives. We have attempted to capture what
seems a lifetime. It is strange that photos and words should be able to so accurately depict the events of four
years, when our own minds tend to blur and change them.
Our experiences have been, shall we say, enlightening. They have given us glimpses ofboth the inner strengths
and weaknesses that have enabled us to reach this pinnacle, our graduation. We've had fun: partying at F&M's,
Rendon Inn, Cooter's; barbeques at City Park; the Weber Open. We've also had the frustrations of losing a
patient to a gun at three in the morning; on-calls in the MER; eight o'clock lectures; Saturday Exams. All these
experiences, both the fun and the not-so-fun, add up to what we have become: doctors.
This yearbook is an attempt to save a little ofthose experiences in a convenient little time-capsule bound in blue
vinyl, a dusty volume on a high shelfonly the grandchildren will want to see. The two ofus could not have done
it alone, God knows we tried. Parthenia Wong and Dave Weist spent countless hours typing the copy on
computer. Keith Kronemer gave of his time to supervise the business accounts, as well as of his considerable
computer wizardry. Jeanne Gundzik bravely handled all the layout copy assignments thrown her way
(everything!) as well as offering superlative creative advice. We also want to thank all those people who
contributed photographs and assisted us in ways too numerous to mention.
We hope (and pray) that this yearbook willgive you something of the satisfaction it has given us, and that it will
remind you ofgood times long ago.
140 Barry Isaac Resnik Steven £. Rinehouse
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