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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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contact, but as they really are. Under trying circumstances individuals they show their natural stripe. No wonder the physicians are so facil at knowing and so adept of learning people. Medical men have no patience with faked illnesses, and spend no time or energy on these imaginary ills. I have seen the dockers but sensed make-believers have it straight from the shoulder. Such lectures! The advise given couldn't help but penetrate the dullest skulls; the thickets skins. Lectures that could not readily be forgotten. After one such I remarked to one of the doctors, "No one would ever dare to talk to me that way." - the way I have heard them talk to a roommate, to a man down the hall, to a youth in the ward. The tactics was unquestionably direct but it is not always so. In the food tests - we remember - methods are more subtle, depending, of course, upon the ease and the result desired. Patients, as I have observed them, are an extraordinarily strange bunch of people. None more so! - excepting myself, of course. Stomach-achers are even more curious than most of the others. There was the one, at least - the Mexican bull-fighter - he was known to have slept soundly at St. Mary's. Stomach patients - intense, nervous type, ordinarily but not always get [Nembuctol?] (a sedative) at bedtime to insure proper rest and relaxation. The bull-fighter was reported as having induced several other patients in the ward to trade their Nembutol. How he manipulated this we never quite learned - but the story a good one, I think, is not to be spoiled by idle speculation. The bull-fighter took these several
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contact, but as they really are. Under trying circumstances individuals they show their natural stripe. No wonder the physicians are so facil at knowing and so adept of learning people. Medical men have no patience with faked illnesses, and spend no time or energy on these imaginary ills. I have seen the dockers but sensed make-believers have it straight from the shoulder. Such lectures! The advise given couldn't help but penetrate the dullest skulls; the thickets skins. Lectures that could not readily be forgotten. After one such I remarked to one of the doctors, "No one would ever dare to talk to me that way." - the way I have heard them talk to a roommate, to a man down the hall, to a youth in the ward. The tactics was unquestionably direct but it is not always so. In the food tests - we remember - methods are more subtle, depending, of course, upon the ease and the result desired. Patients, as I have observed them, are an extraordinarily strange bunch of people. None more so! - excepting myself, of course. Stomach-achers are even more curious than most of the others. There was the one, at least - the Mexican bull-fighter - he was known to have slept soundly at St. Mary's. Stomach patients - intense, nervous type, ordinarily but not always get [Nembuctol?] (a sedative) at bedtime to insure proper rest and relaxation. The bull-fighter was reported as having induced several other patients in the ward to trade their Nembutol. How he manipulated this we never quite learned - but the story a good one, I think, is not to be spoiled by idle speculation. The bull-fighter took these several
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