Word: meds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another instance, 15 volunteers were given a chance to watch a brain operation. As the delicate steps exposing a pulsating cerebrum proceeded, one by one the men left the room, some violently ill, until only four remained. After only two night's work, one pre-med student changed his vocational plans, it was revealed by his more cold-blooded companions...
Competition from pre-meds, who have to get good marks, makes this a tougher field than Biology. But much of the reputed toughness, is due to the fact that many would-be beside-manner doctors just lack a skill in science, and consequently complain. Nevertheless this is a better choice for the pre-med than Biology in most cases, since it levaes more courses open for distribution, and yet covers everything needed for a thorough understanding of human physiology. It is better avoided, though, by men who can't do math. For the man who intends to do no graduate...
...Med Men Working...
Seijiro's family did not know what had become of Seijiro last week. With eleven other Japanese families, they were packed into the classrooms of a Japanese-language school in Los Angeles. Said Seijiro's oldest son, 23-year-old Takeshi Suchiya, a pre-med at Compton District Junior College when the FBI rounded up his family: "When we stop to think it over, most of us understand the necessity for evacuation. But the immediate reaction is, we have got some rights as Americans. . . . I know my parents are loyal, yet they have been picked up. Anyhow...
Moving to forestall a threatened shortage of doctors, the Army last week extended draft deferment and a chance for commissions to men in their first and second year of medical school and pre-med students who have been accepted by a reputable graduate school...