- Title: F-4644
- Summary: JOURNEY INTO MEDICINE: DRAMATIZES A DOCTOR'S "JOURNEY INTO MEDICINE". 1940s MEDICAL STUDENTS SCHOOLING, INTERNSHIP AND DECISIONS TO SPECIALIZE IN PUBLIC HEALTH. DEMOCRACY INVOLVED IN PUBLIC HEALTH.
- Description:03:00:40 - PAN DOWN LONG TABLE, DOCTORS CALCULATING ON 1940s ADDING MACHINE WRITING DOWN THE RESULTS. 03:01:10 - STUDENT TAKES HIS GLASSES OFF, RUBS BETWEEN HIS EYES. MEDICAL STUDENT. 03:01:28 - MEDICAL STUDENT IN NEW YORK CITY, 1940s SKYSCRAPERS. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS. UPPER MANHATTAN 03:01:53 - 1940s CAR PULLS INTO DRIVE OF COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER. 03:01:58 - LOW ANGLE SKYSCRAPERS. MID-WESTERN MAN LOOKS AROUND AT THE TALL BUILDINGS. 03:02:08 - "PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOR THE POOR" PLAQUE ON BUILDING 03:02:12 - PEOPLE ENTERING CLINIC. PATIENTS GOING FOR TREATMENT 03:02:17 - CLUSTER OF 6 BUILDING MAKING UP THE MEDICAL CENTER 03:02:24 - MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENTS ON CAMPUS 03:02:36 - NEW STUDENTS REGISTER. CU STUDENT FILLING OUT REGISTRATION CARD 03:02:48 - TWO MEDICAL STUDENTS WALK WHILE LOOKING AT THEIR FORMS 03:03:05 - POV WALKING DOWN HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, NURSES, DOCTORS. VISITORS 03:03:28 - COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS 03:03:38 - MEDICAL STUDENT MOVES INTO DORM ROOM. TONS OF MEDICAL BOOKS. SETS UP HIS DESK. MICROSCOPE. MEDICAL SCHOOL HAND & BONES 03:04:09 - MEDICAL STUDENTS WEAR WHITE LAB COATS IN PHYSIOLOGY LAB. STUDENTS FOLLOW TEACHER OVER TO SPHYGMOMANOMETER, LEARNING HOW TO TAKE BLOOD PRESSURE. BLOOD PRESSURE INSTRUMENT SPHYGMOMETER. 03:05:18 - MEDICAL STUDENTS IN CAFETERIA ON A BREAK. TALKING, GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER. FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS IN DORM GRILL. 03:05:44 - GEEKY ORIENTAL MEDICAL STUDENT LIGHTS PIPE SMOKES PIPE WHILE STUDYING 03:05:48 - MED STUDENTS IN SCHOOL CAFETERIA 03:05:52 - MEDICAL STUDENTS STUDY IN DORM ROOM 03:06:12 - MEDICAL STUDENTS IN CLASSROOM. STUDENTS LOOKS INTO MICROSCOPE. PATHOLOGY LAB. 03:06:23 - DOCTOR POINTS AT X-RAYS ON WALL, STOMACHS AND INTESTINES WALL OF X-RAYS. 03:06:30 - TEAM OF SURGEONS IN OPERATING ROOM, MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSISTS LEARN BY DOING. 03:07:17 - 1940s STUDENTS COME OFF TENNIS COURT, CARRYING TENNIS RACKETS, COUPLE DRESSED IN LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING WALKING ON CAMPUS. 03:07:38 - THIRD YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT VISITS PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL WARD. NURSE ASSISTS 03:09:15 - THIRD YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS USING MICROSCOPES IN CLINICAL PATHOLOGY LAB 03:09:32 - FOURTH YEAR CLINICAL CLERKS, STUDENTS IN AUDITORIUM 03:09:40 - 4TH YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT WITH PATIENT 03:09:49 - CU PAN POOR PATIENTS WAIT TO SEE DOCTOR AT CLINIC. HEADS BOWED DOWN. ASHAMED. 03:10:14 - GROUP OF MALE MEDICAL STUDENTS TALKING IN STUDENT LOUNGE STUDENTS SHARING EXPERIENCES, REFLECTING LISTENING 03:10:59 - MEDICAL INTERN WORKING WITH ILL CHILDREN CARRIES BABY, PLACES IN CRIB. INTERN IN PEDIATRICS. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL 03:11:59 - EXTERIOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER 03:12:11 - PAN UPPER MANHATTAN SKYLINE. 03:12:27 - POOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOOD. CHILDREN PLAY IN THE STREET. EL SUBWAY PASSES IN BKGD. ELEVATED TRAIN. TENEMENTS 03:12:43 - MOTHERS PARK BABY CARRIAGES IN FRONT OF CHILDREN'S CLINIC MANY CARRIAGES IN FRONT 03:12:56 - DOCTOR EXAMINES CHILD, GIRL HAS MALNUTRITION. POOR MOTHER SHAKES HER HEAD. DOCTOR READS CASE HISTORY. 03:13:57 - MOTHER TALKS TO CASE WORKER. 03:14:22 - DOCTOR PRESENTS A CASE IN "THE GRAND ROUND" STAFF LISTENS SEATED IN ROUND AUDITORIUM. DOCTOR OPERATES ON CHILD WITH CONGENITAL SYPHILIS. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. DOCTORS OBSERVE 03:15:54 - DOCTOR IN LAB CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS TALKS TO HEAD NIGHT NURSE. STERN LOOKING NURSE. 03:16:42 - DOCTORS IN STAFF SEMINAR, CHILDREN'S DISEASES. 1940s 13 YEAR OLD GIRL WITH ANOREXIA-NERVOSA. MALNOURISHED CHILD WITH SPASMS. PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESSES. 03:17:20 - PSYCHIATRIST AT BLACKBOARD. DISCUSSING ANOREXIA NERVOSA PIPE SMOKING DOCTOR LISTENS. SYMPOSIUM. 03:17:58 - DOCTORS VISIT CHILDREN ON OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PORCH SICK KIDS PLAY, PAINT. 03:18:23 - DOCTORS, INTERNS SHARE EXPERIENCES. TWO DOCTORS TALK DOCTOR TAKES A CALL AND LEAVES 03:19:10 - DOCTOR EXAMINES ILL CHILD. EXAMINING TABLE. NURSE SHOWS PARENTS TO WAITING ROOM. DOCTOR LOOKS INTO CHILD'S MOUTH. TONSILS. CU ILL CHILD ON TABLE. DOCTOR AND NURSE PUT ON MASKS DOCTOR TAKES THROAT CULTURE. 03:20:32 - DOCTOR TALKS TO WORRIED PARENTS ABOUT THEIR CHILD. CHILD COULD HAVE DIPHTHERIA. 03:21:29 - WORRIED PARENTS IN HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM. HUSBAND OFFERS WIFE A MAGAZINE, SHAKES HER HEAD, TOO WORRIED TO CONCENTRATE 03:21:39 - DOCTOR OPERATES ON LITTLE GIRL. RESIDENT AND HIS ASSISTANT. 03:21:53 - FATHER PACES IN HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM. WORRIED PARENTS WIPES SWEAT FROM HIS NECK AND FACE 03:22:04 - CU DOCTOR WITH NEEDLE. GIVES PATIENT SHOT OF ANTITOXIN ANTIBODIES. PEDIATRICIAN. 03:22:24 - DOCTOR COMES IN TO WAITING ROOM, TURNS ON THE LIGHT, TALKS TO WORRIED PARENTS, CHILD HAS DIPHTHERIA. 03:22:56 - STAFF IN NURSE'S STATION DRINKING COFFEE AFTER NIGHT ROUNDS. INTERN. RESIDENT. YOUNG DOCTOR WORRIED ABOUT HIS PATIENT 03:23:19 - NURSE CALLS DOCTOR TO CHILD'S ROOM. WORRIED FATHER POKES HIS HEAD OUT OF THE WAITING ROOM DOOR. 03:23:32 - DOCTOR EXAMINES CHILD, LISTEN TO HEART WITH STETHOSCOPE SOMBER. DOCTOR LOST PATIENT. CHILD DIED OF DIPHTHERIA. 03:24:32 - DOCTOR TELLS PARENTS THEIR CHILD DIED. PARENTS BREAKS DOWN CRYING IN EACH OTHERS ARMS. NURSE COMFORTS MOTHER 03:25:09 - RESIDENT COMFORTS DOCTOR AS THEY WALK DOWN HOSPITAL CORRIDOR. 03:25:32 - POOR PEOPLE IN CLINIC WAITING ROOM. 1940s. WOMAN KNITS WHILE WAITING. DOCTOR WRITES PRESCRIPTION, GIVES TO MOTHER 03:26:01 - EXTERIOR JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE. 03:26:06 - DOCTOR STANDS BEFORE STATUE OF JESUS. SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE. 03:26:20 - LS STUDENT ENTERING SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 03:26:29 - STUDENTS IN WHITE LAB COATS IN LAB CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS BACTERIOLOGY. STUDYING BACTERIA. LAB WORK 03:27:06 - MEDICAL STUDENTS CALCULATING ON 1940s ADDING MACHINES 03:27:22 - MEDICAL STUDENT LIVES IN PRIVATE HOME WITH FAMILY. VISITS WITH FAMILY IN LIVING ROOM. SMALL CHILDREN PLAY ON THE FLOOR. MOTHER KNITS. 03:27:58 - LOWER MIDDLE CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD, BALTIMORE. BRICK BUILDINGS. POOR NEIGHBORHOOD. 1940s. KIDS PLAY IN THE STREET. TRAFFIC 03:28:07 - NURSES ENTER EASTERN HEALTH DISTRICT HEALTH CENTER. CLINIC. 03:28:17 - PEOPLE ENTER URBAN BUILDING. 1940s FASHIONS 03:28:25 - VISITING NURSES HEADQUARTERS. NURSES FILL OUT PAPERWORK 03:28:29 - 1940s X-RAY MACHINE. WOMAN BEING X-RAYED 03:28:36 - 1940s BABY CLINIC. PEDIATRICIAN. MINORITY MOTHERS 03:28:54 - DOCTOR GOES ALONG WITH VISITING NURSE MAKING ROUNDS IN THE SLUMS. SLUM STREETS. 1940s. 03:29:11 - NURSE EXAMINES POOR MOTHER. CHILDREN WATCH. SLUM HOME. 03:29:38 - PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS AND DOCTORS VISIT WATER PURIFICATION SITE 03:29:46 - DOCTORS STUDYING EPIDEMIC USING CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN LONDON 1854 AS A CASE STUDY. FIRST EPIDEMIC TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY TRACKED DOWN STREET AFTER STREET BY THE CORPSES LEFT IN ITS TRACK. DOCTORS LEARNING TO CHART EPIDEMIC MOVEMENT LOOKING AT MAPS, TRACKING DISEASE. EPIDEMIOLOGY 03:30:19 - HS CAMERA FOLLOWS 1940s AMBULANCE ON CITY STREET. 03:30:35 - VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE TO HELP, STUDENTS OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH STUDY MAP TRACKING DIPHTHERIA. MEETING IN THE DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICE. CU DIPHTHERIA PAMPHLET 03:31:17 - VISITING NURSES GO DOOR-TO-DOOR HANDING OUT DIPHTHERIA INFORMATION PAMPHLETS IN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS. 03:31:58 - LONG LINE OF CHILDREN GOING INTO CLINIC TO BE EXAMINED. DISTRICT HEALTH CLINIC. 03:32:10 - CHILDREN GETTING TOXOID INJECTIONS. DOCTOR GIVES CHILDREN SHOTS AGAINST DIPHTHERIA. DISEASE PREVENTION 03:32:35 - PEDIATRICIAN EXAMINES CHILD PATIENT, HOME VISIT HOUSE CALL MOTHER COMFORTS SICK CHILD. 03:32:58 - DOCTOR LIVING WITH FAMILY GIVES CHILDREN TOXOID SHOTS. NERVOUS GIRL WATCHES LITTLE BROTHER GIVEN A SHOT. BRAVE LITTLE BOY, HOLDS ARM WHERE HE GOT HIS SHOT. SMILES. TRUSTING. 03:33:29 - 1940s AMBULANCE PULLS UP TO HOSPITAL, NURSE CARRIES INFANT INTO THE HOSPITAL. 03:33:39 - CU SICK CHILDREN AND BABIES IN HOSPITAL. 03:34:04 - DOCTOR PACES IN FRONT OF TABLE OF SCHOOL TEACHERS. MEETING TO DISCUSS DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC 03:34:13 - HEALTH EDUCATION CLASS, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. BLACK FEMALE TEACHER EDUCATED CHILDREN ON DIPHTHERIA. CHILDREN RAISE THEIR HANDS TO ANSWER QUESTION 03:34:23 - POSTER OF HEALTHY WHITE BABY. PUBLIC HEALTH AWARENESS. "PARENTS TOXOID PREVENTS DIPHTHERIA" POSTERS IN STORE FRONT WINDOWS. PUBLIC SERVICE HEALTH INFORMATION 03:34:32 - DOCTOR MAKES HOUSE CALL, GIVING POOR CHILDREN TOXOID SHOTS AGAINST DIPHTHERIA. 03:34:44 - VISITING NURSES FILL OUT PAPERWORK 03:34:53 - ROW OF SWITCHBOARD OPERATORS CONNECTING CALLS 03:34:58 - DOCTOR MAKING ROUNDS, HOUSE CALLS TO THE POOR 03:35:06 - CU 1940s SWITCHBOARD, CONNECTING CALLS. PLUGGING IN PHONE LINES 03:35:09 - DOCTOR MAKING HOUSE CALLS 03:35:15 - SICK CHILD TAKEN OUT OF HOUSE ON STRETCHER, NEIGHBORS GATHER AND WATCH. CURIOUS ONLOOKERS. MIXED-ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS LOOK WORRIED, COULD BE THEM 03:35:31 - WORRIED MOTHER SITS IN AMBULANCE WITH CHILD 03:35:35 - LINE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN GET EXAMINED BY DOCTOR. CHECKS THEIR NOSES. 03:35:50 - DOCTOR PUTS Q-TIP SWAB UP GIRL'S NOSTRIL AND PUTS CULTURE SAMPLE INTO TEST TUBE 03:36:01 - MEN SIT AROUND TABLE FOR STAFF MEETING 03:36:21 - DOCTOR LOOKS INTO CRIB OF SICK CHILD IN HOSPITAL. LOOKS AT HIS WATCH AS HE WALKS AROUND WARD 03:36:30 - LITTLE BOY LYING ON BED 03:36:36 - DOCTOR IN WARD LOOKS AT CLIPBOARD 03:36:42 - SICK GIRL GETTING HER HAIR BRAIDED BY NURSE 03:36:46 - LITTLE BLACK GIRL IN HOSPITAL CRIB HAPPILY PUTS BLANKET OVER HER HEAD. PEEK-A-BOO 03:36:50 - HAPPY BABY 03:36:55 - DOCTOR LOOKS AT CLIPBOARD, FLIPS PAGE, LOOKS AT WATCH 03:37:00 - MAN RETURNS HOME. ENTERS HIS TENEMENT BUILDING IN MORNING 03:37:07 - MAN COMES HOME FROM WORK. TAKES OFF HIS HAT. LITTLE GIRL & BOY GO TO SCHOOL AS DAD WALKS UP STAIRS. 03:37:29 - MAN SITS ON BED, TAKES OFF SHOES. LOOSENS TIE AS HE LIES DOWN ON BED. PUTS ARMS BEHIND HIS HEAD AS HE THINKS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1947
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-4644