Word: hartman
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...many ways David Hartman, 25, would be a casting director's perfect choice for the role of a medical student. A second-year man at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, he is a handsome, Nordic-looking blond who swims to keep in shape and enjoys chess. He is married to his college sweetheart Sheryl, and for the past seven summers he has been in charge of sports and physical education at a camp for retarded children...
There is one significant difference between Hartman and his classmates. While it is not unusual for students to feel that they are in the dark during their difficult transit through medical school, that is literally true for Hartman. He is blind-the first sightless student to be accepted by a medical school in this century. Nonetheless, he is in the top quarter of his class...
Verbal Notes. Hartman uses a pair of tape recorders for much of his studying, taping lectures on one and dictating notes to himself on the other. "It is quicker and easier to learn from tape than to rely on Braille," he explains. His only Braille texts are a medical dictionary and a notebook of emergency procedures. He has learned anatomy by touch, sticking his hands into cadavers to learn the shape, location and feel of the body's organs. To master histology he listens to classmates' descriptions of cells seen through a microscope...
...Hartman, who developed glaucoma and lost his sight at eight, decided early that he wanted to be a doctor. He left a school for the blind, re-entered public schools to prepare for medicine and graduated with honors from Gettysburg College. Getting into medical school was another matter; seven schools rejected him upon learning that he was blind. Finally, Temple accepted him after subjecting him to interviews by five physicians instead of the usual one. Says Dr. M. Prince Brigham, assistant dean: "We took David because he was a superior student who had accomplished as a biology major what many...
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