Dictation — objection six

Transcript

KESSLER: Objection six. Kessler. Eleventh of November.

To the Director.

I have now raised the observation period five times in writing and once in person. I am told that five of those did not reach the record. I am recording this one so that a version of it exists that is not in your filing cabinet.

The licensed period is eight hours. We ran thirteen and a half in September. On the fourteenth of September the subject woke and correctly described the contents of a conversation held in the observers' room. Through a wall. With the door shut.

The explanation offered to me was that she overheard it. I have measured the wall. She did not overhear it.

I am not making a claim about what is happening. I am a physician. I am making a claim about what we are permitted to do, which is eight hours, and what we are doing, which is not.

Tomorrow night I am rostered to observation, which I have not been in nine years, and I have been rostered by the Director, who does not write the roster.

I am going to run the session. I want that on the record too, because I could refuse and I am not refusing.

I am going to run it because if I do not, somebody will run it who will not write any of this down.

[pause]

Fourteen hours. That is what the sheet is ruled for. Somebody ruled the sheet before they asked me.

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