“You are lying! You're falsifying this report because you're your doctor! You women always protect each other! I paid for an independent surgical vasectomy at the St. Louis Men's Health Clinic. Jude on January 15! I have the bill for the surgery in my briefcase! She got pregnant with another man and is trying to blame me to keep the house!”
“Diego,” said Dr. Salinas, with her voice perfectly firm, as she pressed a single red button on the keyboard with her thumb.
*PRINT. *
The thermal printer located under the desk buzzed, printing an eight-inch photographic strip of fetal ultrasound with time stamped metadata permanently engraved on the margin.
“I’m not done showing them the screen yet,” Dr. said. Salinas.
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The Dr. Salinas adjusted the color Doppler flow on the apparatus.
Instantly, the black-and-white image of the uterus was illuminated with bright red and intense indigo pulsating tapes, which traced arterial blood flow through the umbilical cord and uterine walls.
“Look at the lower left quadrant of the endometrium, Mr. Diego,” Dr. Salinas said, pointing to the plastic tip of her pen a dark, well-defined half-moon-shaped shadow, located two centimeters below the primary gestational sac.
Diego stared. His breathing was short and choppy, tarnishing the glass of his watch. “What is that? A cyst? An infection with your infidelity?”
“No,” said Dr. Salinas-. It is an organized subcorionic hematoma, four commas two centimeters in diameter. But, more importantly, look at the density of the tissue within the surrounding muscle layer.
The Dr. Salinas made an approach to the uterine wall.
