“That’s also true.”

“Doesn’t that suggest to you that there was nothing to see?”

And here is where I had to be very careful, because I had waited five months for this question and wanting a question is how you answer it badly.

“No,” I said. “It suggests that I was the wrong person to see it.”

“Explain.”

“Mr. Tolliver, I spent forty years in operating rooms. In that time I missed things. Every surgeon does. And every single time I went back afterward, the reason was the same — not that the finding was invisible. That I had already decided what I was looking at before I looked.”