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School of Public Health’s re
sponsiveness to people’s needs
and wants. I don’t know whether
this is actual fact or not, but it
certainly comes up in every con
versation, the School of Public
Health’s consciousness of what
people want and need, and what
not. This is the only school of
public health of any size south
of the Mason-Dixon Line, if you
want to use that as a boundary.
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—A Talk With Dr. Frederick C. Mays—
(Continued from Page 1)
versities handle public health
schools that way. So there’s a
great outreach from this school,
over sixteen or eighteen states.
We have a number of foreign
students here, and three quarters
of the enrollment is from out
side North Carolina. So we have
a tremendous responsibility.”
Despite having a more or less
academic job, Dr. Mays is still
a doctor. He is not a practicing
physician in the accepted sense
of the word, but he can prac
tice.
“I’m going to join the local
medical society. I have to have a
license to practice medicine in
North Carolina to do that, and
I’m going before the State Board
of Medical Examiners Friday to
get my license. I had a license
to practice when I was at Mich
igan, and a license to practice in
in Massachusetts when I was
at Harvard, and of course I had
one in my original state, Mis
souri. You give the Board your
other licenses, and they write
to the Dean of the medical school
where -you graduated, and they
may consider you qualified to
practice medicine on the basis
of reciprocity, or they may want
to give you a written or an oral
examination. North Carolina has
a reciprocal agreement with
Missouri. If they consider you
qualified, what they really want
to find out is what kind of a
man you are, whether you'll be
an asset to the society or a
detriment. I keep a license be
cause it keeps me in touch.
“Whenever we go to Cape Cod
for a summer vacntion, which
we’ve been doing for the past
several years, I always take my
doctors’ bag. I remember once,
we live a little way back in the
woods, and some people nearby
were working with a chain saw,
and it slipped and a man rip
ped open his thigh with it. They
were trying to figure out what
to do with him, and they came
to get me, and I went over and
put a pressure bandage on. I
made sure he hadn’t opened any
big arteries or severed a large
nerve, it was just a flesh wound.
If he had severed an artery 1
would have had to tie it off.
There are other things that are
not so dramatic. My daughter
and her child are living with us
now and I’m their family phy
sician except for major things
that require hospitalization or
something like that. I don't have
e narcotics license you have
to have a narcotics license to
dispense narcotics. It doesn’t
come with a license to practice,
though you get a narcotics li
cense on the basis of having the
license to practice. It qualifies
you to keep and dispense the
addictive narcotics codeine,
morphine, and so on. I don’t
have a narcotics license
because I’m not really a prac
ticing physician, and I don’t
want to leave myself open to
pilfering, or something like that.
You know people will use a phy
sician sometimes, if they’re ad
dicts. You can lose a narcotics
license without losing a license
to practice'.
“When you don’t practice reg
ularly you get so you’re not so
sharp on some things, but you
get sharper on others. A prac
ticing physician taking care of
sick people is trying to protect
an individual from the mass of
people. A doctor will overturn
practically anything to get a
man back on his feet so that
he’s functioning again quar
antine -a house, remove a man
from a house even if he’s need
ed there, anything. But in pub
lic health the organism you’re
dealing with is a whole com
munity. You’re trying to protect
the mass of the people from an
individual —a tubercular who’s
spreading his sputum over peo
ple’s food or something. The ap
proach is just the reverse. Some
people say there aren’t enough
doctors to take care of the sick
people, but there aren’t enough
doctors to take care of the peo
ple’s demand for preventive
medicine. More than ever Tiow
people are going to doctors for
checkups, for examinations for
insurance policies, to maintain
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their health.
“What are the levels of well
ness? This is the World Health
Organization's approach. Not,
how great is the presence of
sickness in a community, but
how well is a community, how
much are the people working
in it, participating in it? There
are people now who are going
to psychiatrists who years ago
would wait until they were rav
ing mad, if it ever came to that.
Pediatrics is preventive medi
cine, though I suppose it starts
with obstetrics now you can
go to an obstetrician and main
tain your health throughout
pregnancy and after pregnancy,
starting six months before the
baby is born. You can pay for it
by me month, to make it easier.
In pediatrics you’re maintaining
the health of the child for the
future, you're working with the
parents and the grandpardhts—
you’ve got a whole range of
three genet ations in there, and
you’re not really sure what
you’re working for. It’s just
something out there in front of
you that you’re aiming at, some
nebulous future healthy man.
“1 started out as a practicing
pediatrician. I grew up on a
farm until I was twelve, and we
went to Kansas City for an edu
cation, and while I was in Kan
sas 1 got into YMCA work. 1
was the boys secretary at a
YMCA working my way through
medical school. So when the
time came for me to decide
whether I’d go into general prac
tice or specialize, the head of
the pediatrics department knew
about my YMCA work and ask
ed me if I would be interested
in being his resident. It seemed
the natural thing to do.
“One reason 1 liked pediatrics
was because of the children’s
frankness. It's not that they
walk in Mid say, ‘l'm sick and
this is where.’ It’s that children
don't have preconceived ideas
that cloud your diagnosis. Some
of them are infants, and they
can’t give you any answers at
all. But you know, adults often
have preconceived ideas. They
say, “This is what’s the matter
end this is what's good for it,
I’ve seen theca things before
and I know.’ They don’t delib
erately mislead the doctor, but
they have their own ideas. Par
ents wiii usuaiiy do anything lor
a child, if they have faith in
the doctor. They’ll do whatever
the doctor says. But if you pre
scribe for adults, they'll go
"home and do what the doctor
says if they feel like it, or }f
they think he’s right. If they
get to feeling better in a few
days they won't bother with
what the doctor says. But they’ll
do anyhing for a child.
“Another reason I like pedi
atrics is that when a person gets
to be thirty or forty he has lim
itations, but a child is brand
new, a child can do anything,
take advantage of any oppor
tunity that comes along. A child
still has a whole future ahead
of it, and you’re starting out
fresh.”
—Editor—
(Continued from Page 1)
here and Columbia University.
While attending UNC he was a
full-time reporter for the Dur
ham Herald.
Mr. Campbell said the Week
ly staff was very happy in its
new West Franklin build
ing, and that he expected the
new and enlarged quarters to
enable the paper to improve
considerably in coming months.
The Weekly’s' reportorial staff
consists of woman’s editor Pa
quita Fine, book page editor
William H. Scarborough, and
J. A. C. Dunn. Among the
Weekly's regular contributors
and columnists are Billy Arthur,
Bill Prouty, UNC Sports Pub
licity Director Bob Quincy,
UNC News Bureau Director
Pete Ivey, drama critic John
Clayton, and art columnist Ola
Maie Foushee.
“With our present reportorial,
editorial and mechanical staff,"
Mr. Campbell said, “we feel
we have one of the better news
papers in North Carolina.”
Malm To Speak To
NC Section, ACS
Dr. John G. Malm of the Ar
gonne National Laboratory will
speak to the North Carolina Sec
tion of the American hemical
Society Friday in Chapel Hill.
The opening meeting of the so
ciety's year will begin at 8 p.m.
in Room 207 of Venable Hall. Dr.
Malm’s talk will be on “The
Chemistry of Xenon and the Per
xenates.”
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, how the sale would go.
The pressure on the Board to
take steps to replace the
Franklin Street school proper
ty. if R should be sold, appear?
ed from two sources.
One was the Board's architect
J selection subcommittee, which
said it would recommend a
choice of three architects at
Hie Board's meeting next month.
Mrs. Ross Scroggs, a mem
ber of the architect selection
committee pointed out that 18
months was not very long to
design, plan, and construct a
high school. A replacement for
the present high school would
have to be ready by September
of 1965, and Mrs. Scroggs said
one architect, consulted as to
his interest in the project, had
“shuddered visibly” when told
the 18-month completion
period.
Further pressure came via
Mr. Tenney, who urged the
Board to acquire land for
schools by January 1.
< “We orlly have one school
site now," said Mr. Tenney,
“and we’re not sure whether
we can use that." The site is
the Bennett property south of
town, on which the Board has
an option. But the option has
a time clause in it, not setting
a specific tune by which the
property must be either bought
or the option dropped, but leav
ing the matter up to the Board’s
“integrity.”
"Our integrity may not
stretch too much longer,” said
Mr. Tenney.
He said the present Frank
lin Street school buildings “have
a lot of mileage left on them,”
and mentioned the fact that the
University’s Old East Dormi
tory" has been standing up
there since 1795 and they’ve
been turning out students every
year.”
In eny case Mr. Tenney said,
the Board will need a site for
at least one new elementary
school, which will be necessary
regardless of whether the
Franklin Street property is sold.
I On top of this, Mr. Tenney
said he thought the schools
should have better playing
fields. .“Cariboro Lions Park is
a disgrace,” he said. "We
shouldn’t be leaning on the Uni
versity. We probably have the
worst (playing field) situation in
the State.”
He said the schools should
have a football field, a base
ball field, tennis courts, and
“anything else we can get” by
next year. ■ - - !
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men.
Counterparts for human physi
ological functions may be found
in many small animals. A toad
frag may be useful in studying
the human bladder functions. The
human nose, when it gets into
trouble, may be helped by labora
tory experiments conducted on
the sea gull. For the sea gull’s
nasal passage tells us much that
is useful in studying the nose
of homo sapiens.
. We can team much of our
nerve cells by looking at the
squid.
The flounder’s kidney offers
something that we ought to know
about our own kidneys.
In some way or another, the
kidney specialists can find much
about the human muscular
contractions and otter functions,
by studying sea urchin eggs, rats
and other animals.
Prof. Forster said: “It Is the
unawareness of the practical value
of these preparations that pro
vokes such gales of derisive
laughter when professional know
nothings in public office read
to their backwoods constituents
selected titles of government
sponsored research projects to
point out the essential silliness of
scientists and the irresponsible
waste of taxpayers’ money that
comes from supporting their friv
olities."
Pretty strong words, but they
are probably justified.
Carl Larson, director of pub
lic relations at the University of
Chicago, wrote a letter to the
Chicago Sun-Times recently ask
ing for space to reply to a Sun-
Times editorial that had held up
to the spotlight several topics in
volving laboratory research with
small animals. Die newspaper
had wondered why anybody want
ed to find out such trivial things
about insignificant animals.
Larson took each research topic
and the so-called foolish title, and
explained in detail how the ex
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the other hand, scientists should
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mean, in simple terms—as Prof.
Forster of Dartmouth did here
at the kidney research lecture,
and as Carl Larson did in the let
ters column of the Chicago news
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