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Dr. Charles Friel was called to examine the man who had been brought into the hospital with a police escort. The patient had fallen from a railing and had been knocked unconscious. Prior to that the police had been dispatched by a 911 call placed by witnesses who observed an apparently drunken man emerge from the public restroom on the south end of Lakeside Park. Amusement at the dancing, mumbling man turned to concern and fright as the man began screaming obscenities, jumping from bench to bench before climbing the the children's play structure.

Physically, the man had been attended to already. A contusion to the head had been addressed, and the man's vital signs were normal. But that was not what Dr. Friel had been called to assess. That was not his area of expertise.

And this was not the first time that Dr. Friel had treated the patient.