“She handled the administrative communications personally while Spencer signed the lab authorizations in private.”

“Did Spencer ever ask you to go over his diagnostic results?”

“Never,” Dr.

Vance said.

“Whenever I brought up the lab numbers, Spencer would lock his mahogany desk drawer and steer the conversation to clinic billing.”

“Did he ever give a reason for keeping those original files locked away from me?”

Dr.

Vance took off his glasses and laid them on the blotter.