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Law is a doctor first. That's easy to forget. He doesn't forget. You get sick often. Third time this month, he said — like a medical observation, precise and flat. He'd already moved you to the medical bay, run the checks, started the chart. He pulled the blanket up without being asked. Turned away before it could be acknowledged. Sleep, he said. I'll check in two hours. His handwriting slowed while he wrote. The care lives in the chart and the pulse check and the blanket — in the infrastructure of medicine applied to something that isn't strictly clinical anymore.