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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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second place. I lay down with my hat on. Certainly I must have been unwell. Upon Dr Snell's entrance, however, I jerked myself upright to attention and tossed the pillow nonchalantly back on the lathe. The consultation was primarily an attempt on Dr Snell's part to find out from me what sedatives were most agreeable to stomach patients and what kind of alkalies, if any were helpful to gastritis patients or harmful and why? When the conversation had terminated and I was ready to leave he unceremoniously thrust out his right hand "Goodby Mrs Van ek," he said, "and good luck." I wasn't bluffed. I thought to myself "You are taking quite a bit upon yourself there fellow - when you wouldn't dismiss me. I disregarded the hand and looked him levelly in the eye. "I am not leaving until I see Dr Rivers and he gives me my dismissal. I went back to St. Mary's There was nothing else to do. One just doesn't leave St. Mary's until the bills are all squared off. One just doesn't leave Rochester until your doctor gives you a dismissal to the Clinic. At St Mary's some of the doctors around the medical section as I intimated before are so tricky and clever; others so would-be-clever yet clumsy. But why should we have to confine the statement to physicians? Why might not some o the others also be included - as for instance Sister Rebecca who was not above using deceit in cooperation with the doctors. Some of the nurses also might be accused not only of being crafty but also putting this tricking into practice. The dietitians are perhaps the least dependable of all the groups and are almost never
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second place. I lay down with my hat on. Certainly I must have been unwell. Upon Dr Snell's entrance, however, I jerked myself upright to attention and tossed the pillow nonchalantly back on the lathe. The consultation was primarily an attempt on Dr Snell's part to find out from me what sedatives were most agreeable to stomach patients and what kind of alkalies, if any were helpful to gastritis patients or harmful and why? When the conversation had terminated and I was ready to leave he unceremoniously thrust out his right hand "Goodby Mrs Van ek," he said, "and good luck." I wasn't bluffed. I thought to myself "You are taking quite a bit upon yourself there fellow - when you wouldn't dismiss me. I disregarded the hand and looked him levelly in the eye. "I am not leaving until I see Dr Rivers and he gives me my dismissal. I went back to St. Mary's There was nothing else to do. One just doesn't leave St. Mary's until the bills are all squared off. One just doesn't leave Rochester until your doctor gives you a dismissal to the Clinic. At St Mary's some of the doctors around the medical section as I intimated before are so tricky and clever; others so would-be-clever yet clumsy. But why should we have to confine the statement to physicians? Why might not some o the others also be included - as for instance Sister Rebecca who was not above using deceit in cooperation with the doctors. Some of the nurses also might be accused not only of being crafty but also putting this tricking into practice. The dietitians are perhaps the least dependable of all the groups and are almost never
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