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When David Hartman entered Temple University School of Medicine in 1972, even some of his professors doubted that he would complete the rigorous four-year course of study. But Hartman, 26, who has been blind since the age of eight from glaucoma and is the first sightless American medical student in this century (TIME, April 29, 1974), has surprised the skeptics. In a few weeks the physician-to-be will receive his medical degree, and he hopes to become a psychiatrist...
...ranked in the top 20% of his class of 179, Hartman needed extraordinary dedication to overcome his handicap. In accepting him, Temple waived only a few visual skills-for example, reading X rays. Otherwise, he was required to fulfill all the requirements. That forced Hartman to use considerable ingenuity. In gross anatomy classes, for instance, to take advantage of the sensitivity of his fingertips, he shunned the rubber gloves worn by his classmates when poking around in cadavers-until his fingers became numb from the preservative formaldehyde...
Pulsating Artery. Although helped by his wife Sheryl and fellow students -who read aloud to him from medical texts-Hartman had moments of doubt. Once, in a physiology lab, he passed out while feeling the pulsating artery of an unconscious dog. Later he performed a tracheotomy-an incision into the windpipe-on another dog. In his final year, he accurately diagnosed ailments during clinical rounds-by relying, in part, on descriptions of symptoms by the patients themselves...
...Hartman thinks his success may help other handicapped people to enter the professions. Says he: "There is no way a sighted person can tell me what I can or cannot...
...used material right out of my own life," he boasts. "Nowadays, if we're stuck in a scene, I just reach into my gut and extract something." Archie is based on Lear's Russian-Jewish father Herman, who really did tell his wife to "stifle." When Mary Hartman went to a psychiatrist, says the writer, "she told the same story I told my shrink." His daughter Maggie, 16, had problems with her boy friend; so they became an episode of One Day at a Time. Even Walter's 50th birthday on Maude was all in Lear...