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Previous efforts to determine to what degree patients are satisfied with clinical experiences have been frustrated because of the tendency for patients to give positive, socially acceptable, and invariant answers to postexperience questioning. A new questionnaire was designed and given to 121 gynecologic clinic patients in which expectation was measured as a pretest and fulfillment as a posttest of the same six items. Of a total of 804 responses, 197 expressed increased, and 167 decreased, satisfaction with specific elements of care, a much greater variance than previously reported. Modifications are suggested to increase this test's value in service evaluation.

This work was undertaken in an effort to determine the postovulatory age of human ova based on morphologic criteria. Nine ova, recovered from 132 patients, are described. Case reports include menstrual data, time of operation, basal body temperature, location of ovum in the female tract, and histology of the corpus luteum and the endometrium. Ovular morphologic characteristics are no better than other criteria of time of ovulation.