Veterinary Medicine - February 2009 - (Page 102) Mind Over Miller musings from Dr. Robert M. Miller An unforgettable lesson was one of the few schools that would accept women, and Phyllis Brown and Frankee Paige were good-natured students with a valuable sense of humor. Both were well-liked by our classmates. W hen I was a freshman veterinary student in 1952, two women were in my class of 60 people. The Colorado A&M College of Veterinary Medicine Robert M. Miller, DVM, is an author and a cartoonist, speaker, and Veterinary Medicine Practitioner Advisory Board member from Thousand Oaks, Calif. His thoughts in “Mind Over Miller” are drawn from 32 years as a mixed-animal practitioner. Visit his Web site at www.robertmmiller.com. them carry an Erlenmeyer flask around ways spot the new veterinary students Physiological chemistry was a rebecause they had to haul around this all week to collect every drop of urine. quired course for first-year veterinary large flask. students. The facI remember that ulty member who I was on a hightaught the course purine diet. I had had a PhD, and he to eat sardines evseemed to resent ery day for a week. students working That was the last toward a DVM, time I ever ate frequently making sardines. In fact, remarks such as sometimes I have “I know this bores trouble looking at you and that goldfish. you would much Anyway, rather be studywhen the Erlening a course that meyer flasks were will help make handed out to the you financially students, Frankee prosperous once asked the profesyou graduate, but sor, “Doctor, can you’d better pay Phyllis and I have attention because a funnel to go I’m going to work The course in physiological chemistry, required of all first-year with the flask?” you hard.” veterinary students, was popularly called p-chem. Scarlet-faced, One of his pet the teacher excused the women from The urine was then assayed for its projects was to put his students on the experiment. chemical composition. You could ala weeklong restricted diet and have 102 February 2009 VETERINARY MEDICINE The views expressed in “Mind Over Miller” do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial and practitioner advisory boards or the editorial staff. http://www.robertmmiller.com
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