For Forty Years He Trusted His Best Friend — Then He Found What Was Killing the Man’s Wife

Of all the doctors in the city, it was me.

I have long since stopped believing that was only luck.

Chapter 4 — This Didn’t Get Here By Accident

I stood over that sealed tray for a long moment in the emptying trauma bay, and I made myself say the thing plainly, in my own head, because a part of me was still trying not to.

This did not get here by accident.

I am a physician.