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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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advisabilty of leaving without having seen my doctor began to crowd me. Ordinarily patients see their physicians and receive instructions before they are permitted to be dismissed. Dr. Snell, however, in his overbearing, pompous, domineering way was bound and determined to barge in and have his say-so and have me run off home on the sly, unbeknown to my doctor. On that one point he and I agreed. I wasn't staying in St Mary's - the world's god-damnedest monkey-trap no longer! When I had been enquiring how long it would be before Dr Rivers would be back on duty at the Clinic the hospital still kept putting me off with, "You just can't tell. Dr Rivers may be ill a week, two weeks; perhaps a long time. It would be foolish and unnecessary for you to wait around that long." I had been in Rochester seven weeks and I didn't see that it mattered much whether I stayed a day or two more or not. After all that is the reason I was there, for help and I should not have left before I had attained that help. As a matter of fact Dr Rivers in all probability returned to the clinic the day I left or at least right upon the heels of my departure. I have always been very much dissatisfied with the way my care was handled by Snell. In fact - I think- he very thoroughly bungled everything, including me. I should not have been sent out without assurance that I was all right. I emphatically got no help, however, on getting the stomach problem straightened out. In stead of assurance I went being more emphatically composed than ever. Because noone wanted to divulge everything I was handled off like a bale of cotton. The morning I was leaving Dr Shepherd having been notified by Bagwell finally did come in, and I accosted him,
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advisabilty of leaving without having seen my doctor began to crowd me. Ordinarily patients see their physicians and receive instructions before they are permitted to be dismissed. Dr. Snell, however, in his overbearing, pompous, domineering way was bound and determined to barge in and have his say-so and have me run off home on the sly, unbeknown to my doctor. On that one point he and I agreed. I wasn't staying in St Mary's - the world's god-damnedest monkey-trap no longer! When I had been enquiring how long it would be before Dr Rivers would be back on duty at the Clinic the hospital still kept putting me off with, "You just can't tell. Dr Rivers may be ill a week, two weeks; perhaps a long time. It would be foolish and unnecessary for you to wait around that long." I had been in Rochester seven weeks and I didn't see that it mattered much whether I stayed a day or two more or not. After all that is the reason I was there, for help and I should not have left before I had attained that help. As a matter of fact Dr Rivers in all probability returned to the clinic the day I left or at least right upon the heels of my departure. I have always been very much dissatisfied with the way my care was handled by Snell. In fact - I think- he very thoroughly bungled everything, including me. I should not have been sent out without assurance that I was all right. I emphatically got no help, however, on getting the stomach problem straightened out. In stead of assurance I went being more emphatically composed than ever. Because noone wanted to divulge everything I was handled off like a bale of cotton. The morning I was leaving Dr Shepherd having been notified by Bagwell finally did come in, and I accosted him,
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