Scratching the Surface

He remains fascinated by the brain. “Working with it teaches you about suffering, and the unpredictability of life, that the more we know about the brain, the more we realize we don’t understand. We are still scratching the surface.”

A neurosurgeon comments on his work

Scratching the surface is what I have been doing for the past 45 months. I have been an experiment of one in the unpredictability of life and all of those ineluctable aspects we still do not understand.
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Cheques from Jekyll and Hyde

Have spent the past three hours trying to sort out cancelled cheques for reimbursement.

I am only dealing with 4 items.

I find I have made many mistakes in my record keeping. I think I made payments when there were no sessions with Dr H. On the dates when I did have sessions, I recorded the dates incorrectly. On the dates for which I made a correct date entry, I misreported the cheque number. I have had to dig through all of my prior files to try and correctly resolve what should be an extremely simple set of events.
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