Warpaint (2012)
“Silences -- Warpaint /**/ 3. silences “Who let this woman die?”
Theresa Wong, C.C.’s surgeon, stormed out of the operating room, looking for someone to blame. But there was only Quiola, who wasn’t the person the doctor wanted. She wanted a reprehensible family member who’d been derelict enough to let a mother, sister, wife, daughter, aunt or cousin skip her yearly mammogram, which would have certainly prevented – “– the first tumor from getting so large. But I get in there and what do I fin...d? The first one, the size of a baseball, that’s bad enough but there’s a second, smaller one, hiding behind the first. X-rays didn’t catch it. I had to remove a sizable portion of her chest wall muscle to be sure to get it all. She’ll need physical therapy. Why didn’t this woman see her doctor on a regular basis?”
“I don’t know,” said Quiola, her voice mild, flat. She gave Theresa Wong a searching look and the surgeon, still in scrubs, pushed the green surgical cap back off her forehead.MoreLess
Theresa Wong, C.C.’s surgeon, stormed out of the operating room, looking for someone to blame. But there was only Quiola, who wasn’t the person the doctor wanted. She wanted a reprehensible family member who’d been derelict enough to let a mother, sister, wife, daughter, aunt or cousin skip her yearly mammogram, which would have certainly prevented – “– the first tumor from getting so large. But I get in there and what do I fin...d? The first one, the size of a baseball, that’s bad enough but there’s a second, smaller one, hiding behind the first. X-rays didn’t catch it. I had to remove a sizable portion of her chest wall muscle to be sure to get it all. She’ll need physical therapy. Why didn’t this woman see her doctor on a regular basis?”
“I don’t know,” said Quiola, her voice mild, flat. She gave Theresa Wong a searching look and the surgeon, still in scrubs, pushed the green surgical cap back off her forehead.MoreLess
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