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Many truths which I then found out from my analysis of patients, and which I accounted original, were in fact widely known findings as I discovered afterwards. This was both a pleasure and a disappointment to me.
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The speaker explains that studying patients led to insights they believed were their own discoveries. Later, they learned that these findings were already widely known. This brought mixed feelings: pleasure because their analysis reached established truths, and disappointment because the ideas were not original after all.
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