Nat stands in an examining room of a medical clinic, unable to believe what’s just been said. 

What do you mean it’s come back?!? Last time I was here you told me it was gone. That I was virus free. How does it happen that you say it’s gone and then 6 months later it’s back?…you’re telling me that my liver is even more damaged now than it was before my treatment a year ago? What the fuck?!? I waited all this time for treatment because I was told my strand had only a 20% success rate of being cured. I sign all these release forms, you tell me it’s safe and the best new treatment for Hep C ever and I’m now worse off then when I originally came here?!? Now what!?! My stats were better before. I should have waited it out and done non medical treatment. I mean yeah it was a trial program but come on!!! I’m just a statistic for a big pharmaceutical company getting ready to launch a treatment program that costs 90K?!? How’s that gonna play out now?…How many more like me are there?!? You got this calm cool collected bedside manner with your ”I’m sorries” but you have actually moved me closer to liver disease rather than further away! Nicely done. 

(He/she leaves.)  

1. Time and a place where you felt cheated, manipulated, betrayed. (What did you need?)
2. Personalization of someone who’s not being forthright with you. Sheepish…doesn’t own their shit.
3. Overall sensation of feeling nauseous.