Daniel’s side of the room looked forced rather than powerful. The hearing continued, and Colonel Carter was called first.
Daniel’s attorney tried to minimize his testimony by pointing out that he had never treated me before the day I collapsed. Colonel Carter agreed that he could only testify to what he personally observed. Then he calmly added, “I observed a woman experiencing a genuine medical emergency while people around her stated she was pretending.” Daniel stopped looking at him after that.
When it was my turn, I asked Colonel Carter whether I had known he was a doctor, whether I had ever met him, and whether I could have predicted he would be sitting in the courtroom that morning. His answer to each question was no. Then I asked whether someone could simply decide to make their pulse drop to roughly thirty-six beats per minute. He answered, “Not by simply deciding to.”
