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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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he replied. No more was said regarding my leave until the following Monday when Dr Shepherd was requested to call Dr Rivers in my behalf. Dr Shepherd was supposed to come in again that afternoon but he particularly avoided doing so. I had hoped that I might have the following morning and had ordered an early tray so that I might make the train. When Dr Shepherd failed to come in the afternoon I asked ungently of Sister Robeson to be sure he would be told that I particularly wanted to see him that evening. However, he didn't show up. In the morning she said to me, "I didn't see Dr Shepherd last night and so I didn't get to tell him you wished to see him." "You don't have to see a doctor in a hospital to notify him he is needed. There are ways and means, for instance your system of signals- of summoning him to a patient's bedside." That morning, I again had him granted a dismissal slip and again there was no cooperation. No one helped me to pack. There was no bathtowel. Everything was wrong. There was procrastination upon the part of the nurses and the doctors and I was simply made to miss my train. By this time everyone was well versed in the train departures for the west, and it had been determined that I wasn't learning the hospital except to go home to Boulder. The dismissal slip that morning had disappeared with the train I had missed. There armed, that morning, to be something unsatisfactory about my chart so I discouragedly gave up temporarily. I couldn't make a break
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he replied. No more was said regarding my leave until the following Monday when Dr Shepherd was requested to call Dr Rivers in my behalf. Dr Shepherd was supposed to come in again that afternoon but he particularly avoided doing so. I had hoped that I might have the following morning and had ordered an early tray so that I might make the train. When Dr Shepherd failed to come in the afternoon I asked ungently of Sister Robeson to be sure he would be told that I particularly wanted to see him that evening. However, he didn't show up. In the morning she said to me, "I didn't see Dr Shepherd last night and so I didn't get to tell him you wished to see him." "You don't have to see a doctor in a hospital to notify him he is needed. There are ways and means, for instance your system of signals- of summoning him to a patient's bedside." That morning, I again had him granted a dismissal slip and again there was no cooperation. No one helped me to pack. There was no bathtowel. Everything was wrong. There was procrastination upon the part of the nurses and the doctors and I was simply made to miss my train. By this time everyone was well versed in the train departures for the west, and it had been determined that I wasn't learning the hospital except to go home to Boulder. The dismissal slip that morning had disappeared with the train I had missed. There armed, that morning, to be something unsatisfactory about my chart so I discouragedly gave up temporarily. I couldn't make a break
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