"Gordon R. Dickson - Future love" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dickson Gordon R)

THE GREATEST LOVE
Anne McCaffrey
"You certainly don't live up to your name, Doctor Craft," Louise Baxter said,
acidly emphasizing my name. "I trust your degree is from a legitimate medical
college. Or was it the mail order variety?"

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I didn't dignify the taunt with a reply. Being a young woman, I held my Cornell
Medical School diploma too valuable to debase it in argument with a psychotic.

She continued in the sweetly acerbic voice that must have made her subordinates
cringe, "In the fashion industry, you quickly learn how to tell the 'looker' from the
'putter.' It's very easy to classify your sort."

I refrained from saying that her sortтАФCold Calculating Female posing as
Concerned MotherтАФwas just as easy for me to classify. Her motive for this
interview with her daughter's obstetrician was not only specious but despicable.
Her opening remark of surprise that I was a woman had set the tone of insults for
the past fifteen minutes.

"I have told you the exact truth, Mrs. Baxter. The pregnancy is proceeding
normally and satisfactorily. You may interpret the facts any way you see fit." I
was hoping to wind up this distasteful interview quickly. "In another five months,
the truth will out."

Her exclamation of disgust at my pun was no more than I'd expected. "And you
have the gall to set yourself up against the best gynecologists of Harkness
Pavilion?"

"It's not difficult to keep abreast of improved techniques in uterine surgery," I said
calmly.

"Ha! Quack!"

I suppressed my own anger at her insult by observing that her anger brought out
all the age-lines in her face despite her artful makeup.

"I checked with Harkness before I came here," she said, trying to overwhelm me
with her research. "There are no new techniques which could correct a bicornuate
womb!"

"So?"

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