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E-mail: [email protected] Menlo Park, California 94025 Telephone: (650) 329-0291 POSTMASTER: Change service requested: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 525 Middlefield Road, Suite 130, Fax: (650) 329-1618 Menlo Park, CA 94025. E-mail: [email protected] The Pharos • Volume 77 Number 4 • Autumn 2014 In This Issue DEPARTMENTS On the cover Editorial Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Autumn 2014 2 The care of the patient See page 10 Richard L. Byyny, MD Cover illustration by Erica Aitken The physician at the movies 41 Peter E. Dans, MD Jersey Boys The Monuments Men The Train (1964) Rush vs Reviews and reflections Cobbett 46 Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders ARTICLES The Teaching Hospital: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Evolution of Academic Medicine David Seegal 4 Ic ne wat and other maxims of a master Letter to the editor teacher 50 2014 Fellow in Leadership Awards Peter E. Dans, MD 51 2014 Edward D. Harris 54 Professionalism Award Bleeding by the numbers 2014 Postgraduate Awards 10 Rush versus Corbbett 55 Andrew G. Shuman, MD, Marc Edelman, JD, MA, and Joseph J. Fins, MD Marjorie Sirridge, MD: 1921-2014 55 56 2014 2014 Visiting Professorships How postoperative respiratory distress 18 conspired with friendly fire to kill 2014 Volunteer Clinical Faculty “Stonewall” Jackson 58 Awards Joseph J. DuBose, MD, James I. Robertson, Jr., PhD, and Philip A. Mackowiak, MD 2014 Administrative Recognition 59 Awards Haiti journal Exhibition: “The Surgeon General 60 vs. The Marlboro Man” 26 Ken Barnes, MD POETRY Reflecting on a few well-remembered Perceptions of Ear Disorders medical eponyms 17 Thomas Balkany, MD, FACS, FAAP 34 Martin Duke, MD Breast Exam 25 Trang Diem Vu The Weight of a Marble Lullaby 37 Alyse Marie Carlson 38 Steven Krager Third Year Medical Student 40 Encounter Glenna Martin INSIDE The Robert H. Moser Pharos Editor’s BACK Prize Sandglass COVER 45 Aisha Harris Editorial The care of the patient Richard L. Byyny, MD r. Henry Kempe, author of the seminal “The Battered- and that the “scary dreams” would resolve. Child Syndrome,” was a professor of Pediatrics and Two or more times a day his doctor and other physicians MicrobiologyD and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics would make rounds. Dr. Kempe saw them as being like a at the University of Colorado from 1956 to 1980. In 1978, he school of sharks who would swim in, look at his chart, and finished a hectic and busy day of work, grabbed a full suit- watch the multiple monitors without talking to him, looking case and a heavy briefcase, and caught a flight to New York him in the face, or touching or comforting him. He watched to receive the Aldrich Award of the American Academy of them attentively to try to gain clues about whether he was Pediatrics for contributions in the field of child development. getting better or worse: did they frown, grimace, shake their He arrived at his hotel that evening, exhausted by the long day heads up or down, or yes or no? They would then swim out and travel. Shortly thereafter, he developed shortness of breath with his chart in hand. and hemoptysis. He called a colleague at NYU, who advised One day, a few days after his balloon pump had been him to go to the ER at Bellevue Hospital; he took a cab to the removed, he awoke frightened and crying. He could hear a emergency room and was admitted to the coronary care unit, loud pulsating sound. He was still intubated, so could not ask where they fortunately had an open bed, in cardiogenic shock questions, but deduced that the balloon pump must have been from an acute myocardial infarction with pulmonary edema. reinserted indicating that he was worse. His nurse could see He was intubated and on a respirator, and had a balloon pump his disturbance. She asked, “Is the sound you’re hearing dis- inserted in his aorta to assist in maintenance of his blood turbing you?” She looked at him, held his hand, and said, “That pressure. is the wrecking ball knocking down the rest of the old Bellevue With no recollection of his first two weeks in the coronary Hospital. You didn’t hear the noise on Saturday and Sunday, care unit, Dr. Kempe gradually awakened to pain and confu- but you did hear it on Friday when your aortic balloon came sion. He continued to be very confused and sleep deprived out. That was a bad time. You remember not only how painful by all that was going on in the unit, and was, in addition, that was, but you also remember how the balloon sounded fearful about his memory and reasoning losses and the delu- inside you during those rough days. I bet you are remembering sions and frightening hallucinations he experienced. The only that pain.” With her care and thoughtful reasoning about why good thing about the unit was the nursing staff. They held his he was suffering, and with her explanation, his distress disap- hands, bathed him, oriented him by looking him in the eye to peared. He gradually had fewer flashbacks—when he did the tell him his name, his situation, and where he was and what nurses would comfort and care for him.