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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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The doctors had already made the daily rounds, but here they were all back stampeding at my door and pouring in the door. Striding in with purpose and folding his great length into a diminutive rocker Dr River's demanded "What is this I hear about the gastroscopy being postponed?" "I have no choice," I wailed, "I can't leave tomorrow for I must wait for Dr Moersch to look at my stomach," I reiterated. "Oh, I would rather have Dr. Moersch see you too," appeasingly [illegible] and sensibly came the any thing but urging reply, "but since you want to leave tomorrow, it that event you may as well have Schmitt today. The doctors have a legible means of recording their stomach findings and a way of checking, so that Dr Schmitt will know what has gone before." "All right if you wish," I conceded grudginly, "conditionally of course that if it is inevitable that I have another gastroscopy and Dr Moersch will take the final look at my stomach and will give the final pronouncement. In that even only can I agreeable to having it done this afternoon by Schmitt - otherwise not!" "Dr Moersch will have the final look and the final say" I was assured. There still remained an hour or two until it was time to get ready for the appointment - time in which to think this over. I remembered how I had been checked and rechecked otherwise independently by doctors and doctors. Just the morning before blood counts had been repeated. At Mayos' no one check is going to be sufficient; no one man is going to take his word for it alone when there is any thing as serious and important as a gastroenterostomy coming up. He is going to be assured by other verifications, and
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The doctors had already made the daily rounds, but here they were all back stampeding at my door and pouring in the door. Striding in with purpose and folding his great length into a diminutive rocker Dr River's demanded "What is this I hear about the gastroscopy being postponed?" "I have no choice," I wailed, "I can't leave tomorrow for I must wait for Dr Moersch to look at my stomach," I reiterated. "Oh, I would rather have Dr. Moersch see you too," appeasingly [illegible] and sensibly came the any thing but urging reply, "but since you want to leave tomorrow, it that event you may as well have Schmitt today. The doctors have a legible means of recording their stomach findings and a way of checking, so that Dr Schmitt will know what has gone before." "All right if you wish," I conceded grudginly, "conditionally of course that if it is inevitable that I have another gastroscopy and Dr Moersch will take the final look at my stomach and will give the final pronouncement. In that even only can I agreeable to having it done this afternoon by Schmitt - otherwise not!" "Dr Moersch will have the final look and the final say" I was assured. There still remained an hour or two until it was time to get ready for the appointment - time in which to think this over. I remembered how I had been checked and rechecked otherwise independently by doctors and doctors. Just the morning before blood counts had been repeated. At Mayos' no one check is going to be sufficient; no one man is going to take his word for it alone when there is any thing as serious and important as a gastroenterostomy coming up. He is going to be assured by other verifications, and
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