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The board scheduled the preliminary hearing for six weeks after the notification.Six weeks was a long time to sit inside a situation that had no forward movement available to it, and Lukas spent those weeks doing the things he could do and not doing the things he could not do, which was the only available approach when the significant decisions were being made in rooms he was not in by people he was not permitted to address until the process allowed him to address them.He prepared his defense with his lawyer.The preparation was honest in the way the police questioning had been honest, the complete version rather than the managed one, because his lawyer had told him in the first session after the board notification that the worst thing he could do before a medical ethics board was to present a version of events that the board's access to the criminal investigation's documentation would make demonstrably incomplete."They will have the investigative files," she said. "Or access to th
Chapter Four Hundred and sixty tw
The arrests happened on a Wednesday.Lukas learned about them the way most people learn about things that have been building beneath the surface of observable events and have finally broken through it, which is from his phone, in the morning, before the first patient of the day.Volkov's name was in the third paragraph of the news report, listed among seven individuals taken into custody as part of a coordinated action by Dutch law enforcement in cooperation with Europol and two other agencies whose names indicated the investigation had dimensions that extended well beyond Amsterdam and well beyond whatever had been visible from where Lukas was standing.He read the report three times and then called his lawyer.She answered on the second ring with the quality of someone who had already seen the same report."I was about to call you," she said."Tell me what this means for my situation," he said."It means the situation has moved faster and further than either of us anticipated," she
Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty Three
The reinstatement hearing had a different quality than the suspension hearing.Not in its form, which was the same room and the same seven board members arranged along the same side of the same conference table. In its atmosphere, which had shifted in the specific way that rooms shift when the preceding event was a judgment and the current event is an assessment of what has been done in response to the judgment.He presented the documentation in sequence.Ethics training completion certificate, merit assessment attached. The supervised consultation log, forty-three cases across the year conducted under the formal oversight of a supervising physician, each case documented with the specificity the supervision requirement demanded. The compliance record from Officer Dekker's files. The quarterly progress reports from Dr. Hartog, which he had authorized the release of to the board because his lawyer had told him that voluntary psychological health documentation carried more weight than th
Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty Two
His lawyer called twenty minutes after the message."I wanted to talk through the notification before you had too much time with it," she said."Tell me what it means practically," he said. He was still standing in the Vondelpark, the tram stop visible ahead, the October light unchanged from what it had been before the message arrived."It means the prosecutor's office takes the threat seriously enough to have notified you," she said. "Which is also the limit of what it means. The intercepted communications are part of an ongoing investigation. The network members who are on bail are being monitored. The discussions of targeting witnesses are evidence being used in the witness intimidation investigation." She paused. "You are not in immediate danger. You are in the category of person who should be aware that they are in a category.""That is a careful distinction," he said."It is an accurate one," she said. "What law enforcement is offering is a security consultation and some tempora
Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty One
He read the letter twice at the kitchen table and then a third time more slowly and then he put it down and looked at the window and the August light coming through it and sat with the full weight of what the letter had done, which was to give the past year a shape it had not had when he was inside it.Not absolution. He was not looking for absolution and Alexei had understood this, which was evident in the care with which the letter had been written, the explicit acknowledgment that Lukas's consequences were real rather than an attempt to argue them away. What the letter had given him was something different, the confirmation that the thing at the center of the series of poor decisions, the thing he had been trying to protect, was real and had been protected and was alive in a country where its aunt was a good person and the pain was manageable.He read it again that evening.He called his GP the following morning and asked for a referral.This was a decision he had been approaching
Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty
The first week of the suspension had the quality of the first week of any radical change in the structure of daily life, the disorientation of someone whose body knows it should be somewhere and cannot reconcile that knowledge with the fact of being somewhere else.He woke at six-thirty because six-thirty was when he woke for patients and lay in the flat looking at the ceiling and found that the ceiling did not resolve the problem of what six-thirty was for now.He had secured the herbal medicine consulting work through a contact in the research network, a pharmaceutical adjacent company that formulated supplements for the European wellness market and needed someone with his clinical knowledge to review their development pipeline and identify preparations with genuine evidence bases from those without. The work was legitimate and used a fraction of his expertise and paid approximately one-third of what the independent practice had been generating before the network situation had disru
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