1 result for (book:tps7 AND heading:"delet session octob 23 1983" AND stemmed:oper)
2/32 (6%)
doctor
ointment
lancing
knee
Fred
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(From my own notes: I got there at 1:05 on a cold and rainy afternoon. I found Jane quite upset as she lay nude on her left side. Dr. Gibson and the head nurse, Mary, had been in to 330 to look at Jane’s knee. “I hear from people that your knee has been bothering you,” the doctor had said. “No,” Jane replied, “it hasn’t.” Dr. G looked at it, remarked that she had a large ulcer on the knee, and quickly left with Mary before Jane was quick enough to ask him what he was talking to the nurse about. Jane immediately feared the worst: that Dr. G was going to want to operate upon, or lance, the knee, or something like that.
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(And so Jane learned that her fears had been for little or nothing. No operation or lancing was projected. I emphasized to my wife the role belief could play in her reactions. Above all I wanted her to retrain her conscious mind so that such fears would be banished.
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