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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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they seem - for some undefinable reason - unable to adjust their knowledge to new circumstances. To me a one-track mind professes a pathetic inadequacy in ability, plus training, plus imagination, plus discernment, plus analyses. They perhaps have some slight inkling of the wood of which man is constructed; some idea of the physical differences and individual needs; but somehow lack initiative to apply learned sales + everyday life: I have yet to see a dietitian who can manipulate dietary knowledge to a new pattern. My respects to all of them with whom I have come in contact. One must be an original damn fool to be a dietitian! Long before we had arrived at the comfortable understanding however, that I was to omit foods I couldn't take with impunity, there was a trying guinea-pig ere. I had warned again and again I would never return to St. Mary's I had registered an oath that I was through being experimented upon. Moreover I was strong to performing in order to substantiate put theories; Through being capitalized by the Mayo Clinic just because my stomach happened to be the most sensitive in the world. Nevertheless I have returned to the clinic and to ST. Mary's. Not once but often. I have returned to the clinic because there are no other doctors to turn to; no one else to help me. Not without reason have I such unfounded confidence in these men. I have observed them at work and know what they can do. I know how they exhaust every symptom every possible disorder and trace it to its very root. For thoroughness they have no peers - and
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they seem - for some undefinable reason - unable to adjust their knowledge to new circumstances. To me a one-track mind professes a pathetic inadequacy in ability, plus training, plus imagination, plus discernment, plus analyses. They perhaps have some slight inkling of the wood of which man is constructed; some idea of the physical differences and individual needs; but somehow lack initiative to apply learned sales + everyday life: I have yet to see a dietitian who can manipulate dietary knowledge to a new pattern. My respects to all of them with whom I have come in contact. One must be an original damn fool to be a dietitian! Long before we had arrived at the comfortable understanding however, that I was to omit foods I couldn't take with impunity, there was a trying guinea-pig ere. I had warned again and again I would never return to St. Mary's I had registered an oath that I was through being experimented upon. Moreover I was strong to performing in order to substantiate put theories; Through being capitalized by the Mayo Clinic just because my stomach happened to be the most sensitive in the world. Nevertheless I have returned to the clinic and to ST. Mary's. Not once but often. I have returned to the clinic because there are no other doctors to turn to; no one else to help me. Not without reason have I such unfounded confidence in these men. I have observed them at work and know what they can do. I know how they exhaust every symptom every possible disorder and trace it to its very root. For thoroughness they have no peers - and
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