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I have attended my 40th alumni year from HLS. As a physician, HLS has done little to protect or preserve the role of the doctor, or medical provider and now to be medical extender. The acting dean did not know anything about a medical program which gave lectures, but did not have a doctor on staff. The former Dean, now soliciter general, built up the faculty, began a new building, and decreased the size of the classes. There is no question, HLS will try to be number 1. However, financial problems may lead to buy out retirements and extended teaching loads of the faculty. The clinical program may suffer. The problem the acting dean has is his job to balance the budget. This will perhaps leave him unpopular, leading to a new dean in the fall. The rate of depression among HLS students used to be very high and the industrial quality dorms designed by Gropius do not allow small group activities and continue to promote depression. 40 years later the students recall the terrifying teachers of one L and did not note positive interactions with teachers. One student at his 25th anniversary talked of a positive experience, but Jim Kramer's (Mad Money) story is for him to tell for it helped him get through HLS financially.

Leoanrd Friedman, MD of MA 6:25PM April 27, 2009