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THE BATTALION Page 11
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1978
Med students get $10,500
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Like Davy Crockett, the kindly,
d country doctor has outlived his
me. He can never be revived, no
ore than people like Daniel Boone
Natty Bumppo, savs the dean of
state’s newest medical school at
exas A&M University.
Texas A&M has as its goal training
ifiamily physicians for rural areas of
state, explains Dean Robert S.
tone, but that shouldn’t cause the
iiiblic to think the country doctor
ill rise, like the phoenix.
Stone, former director of the Na-
onal Institutes of Health and dean
if medicine at the University of Ore-
ion Health Sciences Center and at
e University of New Mexico, is re-
ctant to make claims that Texas
will revolutionize medicine
because it is going to turn out
rimary physicians, the computer-
term for family doctors.
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rounded by a complex set of ethi-
al issues including euthanasia,
abortion, prescription drug
abuse, accusations of malprac-
\ice and high medical costs.
For one thing, family medicine
las turned into a specialty, he says,
nd these doctors are no cheaper to
iroduce than their specialist col-
agues. He added that the require-
lents are the same.
For another, in this age of
pecialists, the medical school has
ttle influence on the carrers of its
. tudents. They will embark on four
™ ^ acre years of formal education and
oiusai nay change their minds about family
aedicine.
Most, it is hoped, will stay in
1,11 irimary care fields such as pedi-
^ itrics, family practice and internal
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medicine, and choose to remain in
non-urban areas of Texas.
Non-urban regions are generally
defined as communities larger than
1,000 but smaller than the census
Standard Metropolitan Statistical
Area, and located far, even by au
tomobile, from adequate medical
treatment.
Realistically, says Stone, about 60
percent of Texas A&M’s graduates
may continue to serve non-urban
areas while their classmates may
choose to live in the city and
specialize.
Most students interviewed for
admission say they are interested in
family practice, and he feels they are
sincere, although there is no way to
assure that those selected will re
main true to that interest.
So, despite the assumption most
Texas A&M graduates will be family
physicians in small communities, the
return ot the country doctor is not
assured.
"The country doctor conjures up
an image of a kindly, old man sitting
by the bedside waiting for the crisis
to pass. That is not what modern
medicine is,” Stone says.
The country doctor image is tradi
tionally a man, but the image now
includes blacks, Latinos and women,
he explains.
The modern family practitioner
must command a breadth of know
ledge beyond biology and chemistry
that might discourage a specialist col
league, he notes.
The modern physician is sur
rounded by a complex set of ethical
issues including euthanasia, abor
tion, prescription drug abuse, ac
cusations of malpractice and high
medical costs. That’s a lot for a stu
dent to handle without some early
exposure to the profession’s internal
code of conduct, Stone says.
To this end, the College of
Medicine supports a strong program
of ethics and humanities in its cur
riculum.
But the medical students learn
their “block and tackle before mov
ing to study ethics, community ser
vice and career choice.
Despite advancements in the
medical and science fields, the indi
vidual doctor is less authoritarian
than before, Stone believes.
In general, today’s physicians are
letting the patient in on more of the
decisions. People are also more
aware of their own responsibility for
their health.
Doctors shouldn’t have to be
father figures, telling patients not to
be overweight or not to smoke, he
says.
Texas A&M has an unusual clinical
phase of training in that it is not di
rectly associated with a large teach
ing hospital.
Instead, the college has an agree
ment with Scott and White Hospital
in Temple and Veterans Administra
tion facilities in Waco, Temple and
Marlin. The closest of these is 60
miles away.
“The country doctor conjures
up an image of a kindly old man
sitting hy the bedside waiting for
the crisis to pass. That is not what
modern medicine is."
Aggie Tidbits
United Press Internationul
UNITED NATIONS — Some-
* one, it seems, has been messing with
their capitalist-style swimming pool,
and the Soviets are irate.
So irate they have submitted a
formal protest — and a bill for $5,017
— to the United States.
The pool is at the Soviet Union’s
U.N. Mission in the Riverdale sec
tion of New York City. The Russians
say someone, on Aug. 2, lobbed
three containers of an “easily soluble
white liquid” from outside the com
plex into the pool.
The result: “The pool was closed
and out of operation for a period of a
week and a half, the Soviets said in a
letter to the United Nations.
And there was the expense, ac
cording to the Russian note:
mechanical and chemical treat
ment of the pool and its machinery
and equipment, on a two-fold water-
analysis and on the purchase of
hemicals and so forth. $5,017
'statement of expenses enclosed).
The Russians were numbering it
among “hostile acts’’ directed against
Texas A&M turned out more offic
ers who served in World War II than
any other school including the Un
ited States Military Academy at
West Point. There were 18,000 Ag
gies who served in World War II,
13,000 of which served as officers.
toi ( 'them and were
Americans pay up.
The Americans, say the Soviets,
twasi hadn’t even bothered to reply to
a l)i| their complaint.
Let alone that bill of $5,017.
By LIZ BAILEY
Battalion Reporter
Students in the Texas A&M Uni
versity College of Medicine received
$10,500 in scholarships and honors
awards this year.
First recipient of the $1,500 Nie-
derer Scholarship in Medicine was
first-year medical student Jan
Dymke who also received one of 20
Merit Awards worth $300.
The Niederer Scholarship is spon
sored by Mr. and Mrs. Donald H.
Niedere of Bloomington, Ill. The
scholarship may be renewed each
year if the holder is in good academic
standing as judged by the medical
school faculty.
Financial need, faculty recom
mendations and academic achieve
ment are considered when the reci
pient is chosen.
The Sam Houston Sanders and
Harrison scholarships in medicine
were renewed to Jay Franklin and
Tim Field, respectively.
Each scholarship is worth $1,500
per year and may be renewed if the
holder is in good academic standing.
Nine other Merit Awards were
given to first-year students and ten
went to second-year students.
Merit Awards are made available
by appropriations of the Texas Legis
lature to all Texas medical schools.
Two $300 scholarships from the
Muscular Dystrophy Memorial
Scholarship Fund, endowed by Sam
W. Law, will be awarded early this
fall.
Unitecf,. Press International
DEER PARK, Texas — An in
dustrial waste company has asked
federal approval to establish disposal
points in Louisiana and Texas for a
heat-absorbing chemical linked to
cancer, liver disease and birth de
fects .
PCBs, or polychlorinated bi
phenyls, have been ranked by the
Environmental Protection Agency as
a leading pollution threat to the envi
ronment.
Rollins Environmental Services
Inc., has applied for permission to
burn and bury PCB waste materials
at its disposal plants in Deer Park
and Baton Rouge, La.
Jerry D. Neel, plant manager for
Rollins in Deer Park, said the plant
had been burning PCB wastes
routinely until the new regulations
took effect.
Stone notes that Texas A&M is
solving the distance problem by de
pending heavily on relay closed-
circuit television between here and
Temple.
In spite of the logistical problems.
Stone is satisfied with the arrange
ment.
“Too often, medical students are
educated in large, publicly run hos
pitals, where the pressure of taking
care of so many people is such that
the humane aspects of medicine are
often lost in the hurly-burly.
“The administration of a school is
different from that of a hospital and I
think Texas A&M s College of
Medicine is better off leaving that in
the hands of people with that exper
tise."
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