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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe blood drive was somewhat of a disappointment," Leon Rothenberg '61, co-chairman, said yesterday in his final report. Out of 1200 scheduled appointments, only 880 students actually gave blood. This total is 121 less than last year...
Gist of the report, which studied the careers of 1,390 Harvard students who went on to medical school from 1949-56: grades and academic honors weigh heavily in determining admission to medical school, but a student's choice of major-assuming he has met minimum science requirements-has no bearing. Writes Author Dean K. Whitla, director of Harvard's office of tests: "It would be regrettable if some of our students who plan to become doctors felt that they must turn away from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school...
Medical schools, writes Whitla, have become increasingly more aware of the importance of liberal arts backgrounds. But at Harvard, at least, the students have not; in 1949, 47% of those who went on to medical school took premed courses; by 1956, the last year the report covers, 67% were premed majors. For future physicians, some comments from the men in charge of admissions at five other major medical schools...
...Cardiac neurosis" is more widespread than laymen-or many doctors-realize. In the A.M.A. Journal three specialists report on a six-year study of 27 New England patients (including the conductor). All complained of chronic chest pains; all were exhaustively studied and found free of physical heart disease. To most of them, neurotics at heart, this was not really news; they had already had this word from several doctors. Such unsatisfactory verdicts sent them to still other doctors until they got the grave diagnoses they wanted...
...executed, Pasternak was asked to sign a resolution of approval, and refused: "My wife was pregnant. She cried and begged me to sign, but I couldn't ... I abhorred all this blood ... It was, I was told later, my colleagues who saved me indirectly. No one dared to report to the hierarchy that I hadn't signed...