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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pre-Med Interest...
Prime interest in the program comes from College and Radcliffe students definitely intent on applying to medical school. A survey shows that of the 124 Volunteers who comprise the entire project, 61 percent are pre-meds and another eight percent are considering the medical profession. The General Hospitals Program provides a close glimpse of the organizational workings of the five hospitals, contact with surgeons, ward doctors, nurses and interns on the job, and some actual experience in caring for the sick and injured...
...volunteers are busy in the wards, at the telephone switchboard, or in the mail service, they are always acquiring what she calls "hospital sensitivity"--an ability to do the right thing at the right time under both emergency and ordinary conditions. It is this "sensitivity" which the program's pre-meds intently strive to attain...
Carl W. Braun '58, pre-medical student, describes the emergency ward at MGH, where he works once each week, as "an on and off business." In the course of a three-hour stretch one evening, Braun remembers helping with two auto accident cases, one Delirium Tremens, two epileptics, a violent neurotic, and three battling cab drivers who had bashed each other's cars and heads...
...time when the dean of observers of the Harvard scene, John Marquand, was levelling his sights on the Yard. Despite the accuracy and perception of many of Marquand's comments on the nature of Harvard, his viewpoint has certain limitations. Marquand's Harvard is that of the pre-World War II days: Harvard as a veritable breeding ground of class-consciousness, and the very soul of New England social-financial distinctions...