Summer Seaside Wedding by Abigail Gordon

Author:Abigail Gordon [Gordon, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-08-11T20:00:00+00:00

He wasn’t wrong about her reaction when Harry said first thing on Monday morning, ‘You are on your own today with the home visits, Amelie. We’re passing on to you the ones that should be the least traumatic. Although one can never be sure of that. Some of the calls we receive asking for a visit don’t describe clearly enough the seriousness of the problem. Anyway, see how you get on. If you come across anything you can’t handle, give one of us a ring.’

She managed a smile that was a cover-up for what she was really thinking, which was that Leo had to be behind her suddenly being seen as ready to work on her own.

As if Harry had read her mind he said, ‘Having had you with him while he was doing house calls, Leo feels that you are ready to go solo.’

There had been no sign of him so far and she said casually, ‘Where is Leo, Dr Balfour? I haven’t seen him since I arrived.’

‘Went out on an urgent call at eight o’clock and isn’t back yet,’ he said briefly, and went to sort out his own day.

By the time Leo returned, Amelie was already dealing with her allocation of those in the waiting room, and as the morning progressed there was no time to dwell on anything but the problems of patients who had come for help and relief from the failings of the body.

Jonah Trelfa was one of those. A strapping sixty-year-old farmer with snow-white hair and a ruddy complexion, he’d come with chest pains and breathlessness, which had set alarm bells ringing.

Amelie had worked in a cardiac unit in the French hospital that she’d left in so much haste to catch her flight to the UK, and knew the signs of a heart problem.

‘Is it just indigestion, Doctor?’ he asked when she’d finished examining him, almost pleading for a reprieve.

‘I don’t think so, Mr Trelfa,’ she told him gently. ‘Your heart is not behaving itself at the present time and needs sorting. If you would like to come with me to the nurses’ room they will do an ECG and we’ll take it from there.’

The results indicated that atrial fibrillation was present and before she sent for an ambulance Amelie went to seek out one of the other doctors to confirm that she was doing the right thing.

Harry was with a patient but Leo had just returned from what had turned out to be a lengthy house call, and as their glances met she was relieved that their first meeting after the putdown of Sunday night should be about the needs of someone else rather than their own.

When she’d explained about Jonah’s ECG she said, ‘Could you spare a moment to examine him first before I summon an ambulance?’

‘Yes, of course,’ he replied, and when he’d done as she asked said, ‘Send Mr Trelfa to the cardiac unit straight away. There are worse heart defects than atrial fibrillation, but no GP should hesitate to send a patient with that kind of problem to be checked out.

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