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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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becomes so obvious, so curiously simplified with knowledge. Mysteries that seemed so baffling upon erstwhile observation often becomes closely discernable to a finely perceptive mind. Oftentimes too the problem may become more and more complex in the same light of greater knowledge, and farther and farther removed from a reasonable solution. This is my type of stomach. It defies explanation. Even now the search continues. Ideas need to be modified and reconstructed; improvement is striven for; new approaches are sought. Conditions of an organism change. It must either show progress and improvement or else retrogression will landslide what already has been accomplished and won at a price. The quest for truth is an unending one. The rest is on the march and not even the end of life itself shall punctuate the final sentence and add the final period. Doctors are a great bunch of actors; they are great pretenders. They also rate among the finest psychologists in the world. The research man is just as much a dreamer as I am. Moreover they are opportunists and eagerly make the most of unusual features in a case, and for an act of the ordinary case, [that shoppers?] to be left on their doorstep there is no limit to their patience and interest - it is six hours stable. The very best physicians know medicine inside and out and an ever alertly curious and attentive to all phases and application of the science. Furthermore the finest of them are extraordinarily "thin-skinned" and
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becomes so obvious, so curiously simplified with knowledge. Mysteries that seemed so baffling upon erstwhile observation often becomes closely discernable to a finely perceptive mind. Oftentimes too the problem may become more and more complex in the same light of greater knowledge, and farther and farther removed from a reasonable solution. This is my type of stomach. It defies explanation. Even now the search continues. Ideas need to be modified and reconstructed; improvement is striven for; new approaches are sought. Conditions of an organism change. It must either show progress and improvement or else retrogression will landslide what already has been accomplished and won at a price. The quest for truth is an unending one. The rest is on the march and not even the end of life itself shall punctuate the final sentence and add the final period. Doctors are a great bunch of actors; they are great pretenders. They also rate among the finest psychologists in the world. The research man is just as much a dreamer as I am. Moreover they are opportunists and eagerly make the most of unusual features in a case, and for an act of the ordinary case, [that shoppers?] to be left on their doorstep there is no limit to their patience and interest - it is six hours stable. The very best physicians know medicine inside and out and an ever alertly curious and attentive to all phases and application of the science. Furthermore the finest of them are extraordinarily "thin-skinned" and
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