Love In The Time Of Apps by Begler Jay

Author:Begler, Jay [Begler, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Physiological Schizophrenia

The last time Goodwin received a phone call at four in the morning it was from his former golfing buddy, Doctor Alex LaRue, Grace Harbor’s famed blind gynecologist. “Doctor Golden Touch,” as he was known at Harborside, caused a minor scandal when it was discovered that he was neither blind, nor a licensed doctor. The good ex-doctor was summarily dismissed from Harborside, not so much for the fraud perpetrated on his patients, but because he used his blindness to gain certain advantages in golf tournaments. Many of his former patients, however, were devastated, particularly because he had such a wonderful touch. “It was almost as if he could see,” patients used to say. The discovery of his deceit did clear up the mystery of how LaRue putted so well. Some members had found his putting skills so remarkable they began to close their eyes when putting to emulate his style. More infuriating and the tipping point for the members’ unbridled rage at him was that when La Rue posted his handicap for a tournament, he always wrote “blind” instead of an appropriate number. This always assured him of a trophy.

LaRue was in a deep depression and in a state of great panic when he called Goodwin. He feared that he was in fact losing his eyesight. When Goodwin told this to Sheila the following morning, she replied, not intending it as a rather black joke, but as a statement of fact, “Well, if that happens, maybe he can get back into the Club.” LaRue never had the malady he thought, however. He simply went to sleep with his sunglasses on and thought the dim light from his bathroom was a symptom of failing eyesight. In the every clouded vision has a silver lining department, however, since he could no longer play golf, nor play doctor, he wrote a best-selling golf book entitled, Putting With Your Eyes Closed.

This time, the caller was Wang whose voice trembled significantly more than La Rue’s. “Sorry to wake you, but we’ve had a complication. Can you come down immediately?”

“What do you mean complication?’ You promised no contraindications; said that you would stake your reputation on it. To trust you; you’re doctors. What the hell is going on?”

“Well, it’s difficult to explain. But let me tell you the good news, the swelling has all but disappeared and the light surrounding your wife is gone.”

“So, doctor, what’s the downside, or the complication?”

“Well, your wife seems to have developed an extreme case of physiological schizophrenia.”

“What in God’s name is that?”

“It’s much easier for me to explain when you get here.”

“Why?”

“Because.” Wang hung up before Goodwin could extract an answer.

There was just a crack of sunlight in the sky when Goodwin arrived at the Meditainment Center’s parking lot. It was not in its usual pre-dawn dormant state, just the reverse. The lot had the character of a staging area for a small invasion, but the troops in this case were reporters. Enormous flood and Klieg lights illuminated close to 100 news vans.

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