I think I asked it.

I cannot prove it.

“What I can tell you is that I was told you were sedated and unable to participate, and I believed it, and I did not walk down one floor and look at your chart, and I could have, and it would have taken me ninety seconds, and I have privileges on that unit and nobody would have stopped me.

“I did not do it because in twenty-six years it has never once occurred to me that a father in that room might be lying to me about his wife.