16Sydney 2002
Vivienne forwarded James’s typed statement to him the day after she returned from Wollongong. She received it back from him two days later. Vivienne appreciated accommodating clients like James Henderson. She liked them to follow her instructions without question. It made everything so much easier. She wished all her clients were as malleable. It was often the case that the sickest or most injured were the least demanding whereas the least affected were the hardest to handle. Vivienne thought about one of her recent cases – an odious, little man, called Frank Sparatelli. All he had were a few, trifling pleural plaques. Small scars on the outside of the lungs. Everybody knew they were just markers of prior asbestos exposure and caused no impairment. Some experts called them t
