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id you hear what happened to Dr. T.?”

I had barely made it into the department and already I was hearing rumors.

“No, what? Is he okay?”

“He’s okay,” Dr. Dan told me, then hesitated. “Well, sort of. I mean, he’s okay… but he lost a patient.”

I winced. “Ouch, that hurts.”

“No, it gets better. I mean worse. She died two days after he saw her.”