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somebody or other who is tactless or even cruel, and the patient is helpless to defend himself. The patient is in the horizontal, bent or sick, and the group is in the vertical and it has all the advantages. The patient can be bullied in one way or another by everyone, from the attending staff down the the scrub women and the janitors. They all have some power over him, and I came to notice that every day brought a certain number of ugly incidents, major or minor!"

Second that way to me, but I never knew who was to blame, or whether it was my fault. There were an awful lot of mistakes in medication. I was glad when I was well enough to have a good look at those pills before I took them. But isn't that inevitable?" "To a certain extent, perhaps, but its occurring much too frequently. But the miracle of Miss Effie is on a much higher plane. There you have the pictures herself, and the medication that she wash handling with such inspiration and devotion were of a higher order and much more esoteric than they should be. All of this to say, Inspector, that the medical profession has developed a kind of collective delusion of grandeur which makes a claim a much more absolute authenticity than it is entitled to. And the public is so accustomed to worship science and technology that it's easily persuaded that medicine is scientific and should be taken as such. But of course that's very far from the truth. The so called basic sciences are more largely the descriptive than the exact and the practice is just experiences acquired by individuals teached in the bare sciences. Take the devotion, the imagination and the love, of a Miss Effie, and cultivate it in the humanities and perhaps even lastly, in a knowledge of the various scientific disciplines - and you will have a wonderful doctor, an inspiration to students and a better teacher. Without Miss Effie, you may have a dangerous or a stupid posessor of power and privilege. Without the training you have the [??]