13Vince sat down at his desk, impatient to distract his troubled mind. If you didn’t think about it, it wasn’t happening, right?
He brought up his morning list to find that his first punter was Rita Findlay. He’d found that his messy overlap between friends and patients was endemic in country practice—the longer you stayed, the more of your friends became patients and vice versa. Not that Vince was looking to make friends, but the blurring of those boundaries could be tricky.
The clinic policy was that staff should attend other practices, but long-standing patients like Rita remained on a ‘grandfather’ clause. Not that she was a grandmother, in fact she wasn’t even a mother. Vince knew she had endometriosis, a puzzling but common gynaecological malady that can cause infertility and was a
