Dr. Mani Menon

Yes, yes, yes.

I was 24. There was no match there. So you applied and you went wherever you got it. And I was accepted in the middle of the year, in January of 1973, to the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. I was delighted to get into the Episcopal Hospital. It was a major teaching affiliate of Temple University.

I was 24. There was no match there. So you applied and you went wherever you got it. And I was accepted in the middle of the year, in January of 1973, to the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. I was delighted to get into the Episcopal Hospital. It was a major teaching affiliate of Temple University.

I was 24. There was no match there. So you applied and you went wherever you got it. And I was accepted in the middle of the year, in January of 1973, to the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. I was delighted to get into the Episcopal Hospital. It was a major teaching affiliate of Temple University.

It had a reputation for training excellent surgeons, but much more, it was a community hospital that had a neurosurgical residency embedded within its facilities. a GME, when I thought this would be my best chance of getting into a neurosurgical residency. So that's how I ended up at Episcopal. It was a cultural shock to me. Episcopal was in the middle of Philadelphia's worst neighborhood.

It had a reputation for training excellent surgeons, but much more, it was a community hospital that had a neurosurgical residency embedded within its facilities. a GME, when I thought this would be my best chance of getting into a neurosurgical residency. So that's how I ended up at Episcopal. It was a cultural shock to me. Episcopal was in the middle of Philadelphia's worst neighborhood.

It had a reputation for training excellent surgeons, but much more, it was a community hospital that had a neurosurgical residency embedded within its facilities. a GME, when I thought this would be my best chance of getting into a neurosurgical residency. So that's how I ended up at Episcopal. It was a cultural shock to me. Episcopal was in the middle of Philadelphia's worst neighborhood.

I didn't have a car, and in order to go home, I had to take the subway, I think it was called the L, and then take a bus. It would take me two hours to get home, and then at four o'clock in the morning, I had to get back to be there for rounds at six. I think I was chased a couple of times and yelled at, but I never actually got the privilege of being mugged.

I didn't have a car, and in order to go home, I had to take the subway, I think it was called the L, and then take a bus. It would take me two hours to get home, and then at four o'clock in the morning, I had to get back to be there for rounds at six. I think I was chased a couple of times and yelled at, but I never actually got the privilege of being mugged.

I didn't have a car, and in order to go home, I had to take the subway, I think it was called the L, and then take a bus. It would take me two hours to get home, and then at four o'clock in the morning, I had to get back to be there for rounds at six. I think I was chased a couple of times and yelled at, but I never actually got the privilege of being mugged.

I had, when I first landed, they gave us intern squatters, which were right across the hospital. And I was not used to locking my doors, and so I left the door open. And next to my room was the chief resident. And I think my first week when I was back, I found that somebody had broken into the apartment, broken into the chief resident's quarters and stolen his TV and everything else that he had.

I had, when I first landed, they gave us intern squatters, which were right across the hospital. And I was not used to locking my doors, and so I left the door open. And next to my room was the chief resident. And I think my first week when I was back, I found that somebody had broken into the apartment, broken into the chief resident's quarters and stolen his TV and everything else that he had.

I had, when I first landed, they gave us intern squatters, which were right across the hospital. And I was not used to locking my doors, and so I left the door open. And next to my room was the chief resident. And I think my first week when I was back, I found that somebody had broken into the apartment, broken into the chief resident's quarters and stolen his TV and everything else that he had.

No computers back then. And they didn't have to break into my apartment because it was open. They came in and they found that I was sleeping on the floor. I had nothing, so they left me $5 and walked away.

No computers back then. And they didn't have to break into my apartment because it was open. They came in and they found that I was sleeping on the floor. I had nothing, so they left me $5 and walked away.

No computers back then. And they didn't have to break into my apartment because it was open. They came in and they found that I was sleeping on the floor. I had nothing, so they left me $5 and walked away.

I don't know that there were racist undertones. I think it cut both ways. At Episcopal, it had traditionally been a hospital run by foreign medical graduates. I think 80% of the internal medicine residents were FMGs, as we were called. Not so much the surgery department, but the chief resident was from Mexico.

I don't know that there were racist undertones. I think it cut both ways. At Episcopal, it had traditionally been a hospital run by foreign medical graduates. I think 80% of the internal medicine residents were FMGs, as we were called. Not so much the surgery department, but the chief resident was from Mexico.

I don't know that there were racist undertones. I think it cut both ways. At Episcopal, it had traditionally been a hospital run by foreign medical graduates. I think 80% of the internal medicine residents were FMGs, as we were called. Not so much the surgery department, but the chief resident was from Mexico.

And the hospital had just started to turn, the GME program had just started to turn, and most of the surgical candidates had become American medical graduates. And when they became American medical graduates, we took two residents a year, they didn't want to take call every other day. So I think a plan was hatched, let's get another person to fill in the spot. Since he or she is coming in January,