I spoke with the hospital.

Mom doesn’t need to know about this, and you don’t need to go back.

Drop it.

The attending physician, when Martha showed it to him, asked her permission to check something.

With her consent he pulled up the hospital’s own administrative record — not the medical chart but the log of contacts and inquiries — and there it was, laid out in timestamps.

A phone inquiry from Mark, asking about the status of the pending orders.