Thank you for your e-mail. I was relieved and pleased that my quoting 
Rilke's sonnet did not offend you as being frivolous, perfunctory and
irrelevant. The concept of Verwandlung, spiritual metamorphosis, has 
assumed a pivotal function in my existentiology (a new word!) Specifically,
it's been my ability to countenance the intellectual mediocrity and moral
depravity of Massachusetts courts, - not to speak of Nantucket administrators
that has enabled me to survive and to thrive, - to benefit from nominal
adversity. My wish for you is that you will have the same good fortune.

That your original e-mail: "expectations regarding DCI Boston staff conduct"
was eminently appropriate is demonstrated especially by the enraged reply
of Jean McCorry, which I believe served to corroborate both the deficiencies 
of the Unit and Jean's own limititations. My advice is to be especially
cordial, affectionate and forgiving to Jean McCorry, not to raise the
subject with her - sooner or later she will do so herself, - but to converse 
with her as if, notwithstanding the explicit denial, she had intended the
endorsements of your efforts and of yourself that are implicit in her response.

Your analysis that technicians, rather than physicians or nurses, have come 
to set the standard of medical care, articulates an ultimate quasi-universal
truth in the medical cosmos, from President Obama with his EMR obsession on
down. I suspect that in the end no remedy exists, and all of medical practice
will degenerate or decay into a technology which is unable to distinguish
between machines and human beings. Meanwhile, however, you and I and others
similarly situated have no choice but to resist.

My expectation, I hope not Polly-Anna-like self deception, is that in the 
contexts of both DCI and TMC you will prevail and appear as a partner who
should be given more responsibility, - and perhaps also more income.

This afternoon, there are episodes of heavy rain in Konnarock, but both
Mommy and I are dry, - from the rain if not from the renal effluent.