“My mother-in-law has told me for nine years that if I’d taken proper care of myself, my daughter would be alive.”

Dr.

Hayes was quiet for a moment.

“Was she in the room when I spoke to your family?”

“No.

Just my husband.”

“Then I’d like to say something outside my professional scope, and you can disregard it.” She put her glasses back on.

“I told your husband, at four in the morning, in a corridor, in words of one syllable, that this was nobody’s fault and that there was nothing anyone could have done.