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Show Physiology commenced each day with a road race to obtain a parking spot in the mud and a scramble for a seat closer to the dimly lit blackboard than to the chicken coop. Out there we were undisturbed in our learning endeavor save for the periodic announcements of the latest Syntex quotations. Out there the mountain air wm fresh and clean and cool and flowed freely througn our spacious lecture hall. The winter cold need not have been a problem since we had a willing consultant in the person of Dr. Warner who impressed us with his knowledge of heating systems. He emphasized the lag in a system due to inertia," but we didn't quite get it because we couldn't keep up. Analogies to physical systems were not peculiar to him, how· ever, as Dr. Kuida frequently referred to a lead pipe" and a "completely elastic tube" (but he was always quid to point out that a human vessel isn't like either one), Dr. Perl, using a more direct approach, warned us aboul the multitude of bad studies in the literature and then proceeded to lecture from them. Articulate umh deliberate umh Professor Hunt presented a series of stimulating and umh dynamic lectures on ... on. . . . Dr. Eisenman was more reasonable in insisting that if we would just learn the oxyhemoglobin dissocia• tion curve he would be happy, "However, for testing purposes, fellows, you'd beter know chapters 37 through 43 in Bard including charts." Ahhh, Dr. Renzetti, a clinician; now for some real meat! What a relief from the plumbers and electricians! " ... now boys I hope you'll bear with me while I try a little experiment the Bohr equation .... " Lab experiments: river of urine, gysers of blood, unexplained sudden deaths, organized chaos fol• lowed by a critique to explain what should have hap· pened. All in all, a well-taught but unnecessarily irrelevant course. II Just a barn; no more, no less. If you think The Barn is empty, you should have heard the lectures! II "If it doesn't work, dry-lab "You didn't get the op-permit signed?!!" it." |
