The following article was presented originally as a paper at the 11th annual WICHEN Communicating Research Conference on May 5, 1978 at Portland, Oregon. Editors of Image found it a forthright and challenging personal testimonial to the paradoxical nature of nursing research and decided it should have broader distribution. The paper has been edited for publication.
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