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104 Friday, September 11, 1982

May the coming

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

BGU Producing Community MDs

Israel from Morocco when
World Zionist Press Service
he was 10 months old. Now
year be filled
JERUSALEM — Joshua 28, he serves as a commu-
"Shuky" Assaraf arrived in nity doctor in the same
clinic in the development
with health and
town of Ofakim where he
had been treated as a child.
Dr. Assaraf is one of a new
happiness for
breed of doctors, having
to all
been a member of the first
'class of graduates from the
our friends
all our family
Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev Medical School.
and relatives
The school's approach,
and friends
which has become known
internationally as "The
Beersheva Experiinent"
THE NOVOGRAD FAMILY after a BBC-TV program
BEN & EILEEN RUBENS
about it by this name, is rad-
ically different from that of
almost any other medical
_ We wish our family and friends a
school in the world today.
The main goal is to train.
very healthy, happy and prosperous
community - oriented and
New Year
family doctors. "Israel has
enough doctors," states
IRVING & REBA BLOOM
Prof. Moshe Prywes, dean of
the medical school, "but it
doesn't have enough good
We wish our family and friends a
doctors where it needs them
very healthy, happy and prosperous
— in the hundreds of
neighborhood clinics, espe-
New Year
cially in the Negev and in
development towns of the
MARILYN & JERRY FLACK & FAMILY
north."
It was this that drew
Shuky to Ben-Gurion
We wish our family and friends a
University. "I considered
very healthy, happy and - prosperous
studying engineering or
New Year
law, but I didn't feel that
either of them would give
me the opportunity to
IRVING & PEARL WEINGARDEN
serve my community di-
rectly. It was the medical
school in Beersheva that
was right on target on
this score," says the in-
tense young physician,
Wishing all our family and
who saw action as a
friends a year of
commando in the Yom
Kippur War.
health and happiness
"It was a very hard grind
HAROLD & BARBARA FRIEDMAN
for me. First, there was the
EMILY & BRADLEY
problem of money. As one of
10 children, I certainly
couldn't expect much help
from my parents, but be-
tween scholarships, loans
and part-time jobs, I man-
Wishing all our family and
aged to make ends meet.
Then there was all the
friends a year of
material that had to be
health and happiness
learned."
"We use what is called the
EDITH & ISADORE KOLODNEY
integrative spiral. ap-
proach," says Dr. Lior
Rosenberg, a young surgeon
who serves on the cur-
riculum committee. "In
other medical schools, stu-
Wishing all our family and
dents are overwhelmed by
science — biology, chemis-
friends a year of
try, anatomy and physiol-
health and happiness
ogy in their initial three or
four years. Here in Ben-
Gurion University students
HELEN & MORRIS MUSIC

By ARNOLD SCHLISSEL

vann ran nin

are introduced to these sub-
jects gradually as they learn
about different systems in
the body. Each year they re-
turn to the same areas and
learn new systems and take
other courses.
"Believe me, by the end of
their six years, they are as
knowledgeable about the
`hard' sciences as their
young colleagues any-
where."
"Where we do have a
major advantage," in-
jects Dr. Assaraf, "is in
our ability to relate to
patients. From our very
first week as students we
are put into clinical situa-
tions. A great deal of em-
phasis is put on sociol-
ogy, psychology and
communications skills.
The aim is to see each
patient as a human being
and not as a setting for a
disease."
Life isn't all a bed of roses
for the new doctors, how-
ever. "As part of the Kupat
Holim (Health Service) sys-
tem I serve a neighborhood
with 1,500 people. It's just
not possible, to practice
medicine as I was taught it,
when I have to examine 45
patients in one morning.
"Training a 'new breed' of
doctor isn't enough. You
might say that a three-sided
learning process is now
under way. On one side the
medical school may have to
make some revisions in its
approach if it doesn't want
its graduates to lose their
enthusiasm when they
begin to practice. Next, we,
the newly-trained doctors,
have to learn to practice the
best medicine we can under
present conditions while.
trying to change the exist-
ing system.
"The last factor is Kupat
Holim, which must realize
that in order to provide
quality health care, they
can't expect any doctor,
`new breed' or otherwise, to
see nine patients an hour."
"But don't get me wrong.
I'm glad my patients can go
home feeling they've been
taken care of by a doctor
who cares about them per-
sonally. I know it's hard for
them to believe. Sometimes
it's hard for me, too, to be-
lieve that I've come this
long way and am now back
serving the same people I
knew from my childhood.
And that gives me a lot of
satisfaction."
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We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
. New Year

NORMAN & RUTH BERKLEY

Commander Department of Michigan J.W.V.

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

AL & BEVERLY BETZ

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

MR. & MRS. MORRIS E. BLOOMBERG

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

TOBY & ART LEADER

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

. ENID & NEIL MADGY
RENEE, MATTHEW, DAVID, ANTHONY & ALEXANDER

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

MR. & MRS. ALAN NATHAN

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

MAUREEN & BOB SHAPIRO, SANDY & MICHELLE

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

HELEN & RICHARD PERGAMENT

JOE & MIRIAM SLAIM

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

MR. & MRS. BERNARD SCHLUSSEL

Patients wait to see a doctor in a Negev health
clinic.

Every man takes care
that his neighbor shall not
cheat him. But a day comes
when he begins to care that
he does not cheat his

neighbor.. Then all goes
well. He has changed his
market-cart into a chariot of
the sun.
—Emerson

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness