Carol Marinelli by Billionaire Doctor Ordinary Nurse

Author:Billionaire Doctor, Ordinary Nurse
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-04-27T14:49:21+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

‘IT MIGHTsting a little bit…’ Annie tried to be gentle as she cleaned up the teenage boy’s hands, not that he seemed to care particularly. He just stared up at the ceiling as she had when it had been her turn, only, unlike her, he didn’t try to make conversation. ‘Can you tell me what happened, Mark?’

‘Answer the question, Mark!’ Mr Taylor, his father, barked.

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‘I’ve already told you—I fell.’

Right. And he’d bounced so hard when he’d hit the ground he’dthen landed on the other side of his body and managed to catch his knuckles on his teeth in the process.

‘Afternoon!’ Iosef introduced himself to Mark and his parents before running a cursory eye over the casualty card and the more obvious wounds, and then addressed his patient.

‘It says here that you fell.’

‘I did.’

‘Of course he didn’t fall,’ snapped Mr Taylor, but for the moment Iosef ignored him.

‘I am going to examine you if that’s OK, Mark.’ He turned to the parents. ‘Could I ask you to step outside?’

‘We’d rather stay here.’ Mrs Taylor gave a tight smile. ‘We’d like to see what’s going on for ourselves.’

‘At fifteen years old, it may be uncomfortable for Mark to have his parents present while he is examined.’

‘At fifteen years old,’ Mr Taylor responded tersely, ‘he’s still legally a child and we’d rather stay.’

‘OK.’ Surprisingly for Iosef he didn’t argue the point and Annie frowned just a touch as he pulled on a pair of gloves and performed a comprehensive examination. He did his best to keep Mark covered as he probed his chest and abdomen then rolled him over and checked some rather large bruises on his back, performed a neurological examination then carefully checked a nasty laceration on his scalp.

‘This will need suturing,’ Iosef said, though more to himself, then spoke to his patient. ‘Is there anywhere I haven’t examined that you’re hurting, anything else that happened when you fell?’

‘He didn’t fall,’ Mr Taylor snarled. ‘So can we all stop playing along with his lies? We want to know what’s going on with him. Today isn’t the first problem we’ve had. He’s hardly ever at school, has been coming home at all hours and when he is home is shut in his room. Heaven only knows what he’s on, whether it’s drugs or alcohol—’

‘OK,’ Iosef interrupted. ‘Clearly there are things that need to be discussed so could I now ask again that you excuse us so that I can talk to your son?’

‘And I’m telling you again that we want to hear what he has to say!’ Mr Taylor barked. ‘You haven’t even asked him if he’s taken anything.’

‘Mark.’ Iosef turned briefly to his patient. ‘Have you taken anything?’

‘No.’

‘That’s not asking him.’ Mr Taylor’s face was twisted with rage and Annie watched as Mark just closed his eyes. ‘As if he’s going to just admit it!’

‘So what do you suggest I do?’ Iosef asked.

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‘We have to get to the bottom of this,’ Mrs Taylor said.

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