I found the doctor through a private medical registry that catered to clients who required discretion as a baseline condition of service.
The registry had no connection to any system Charles could access. I had used it once before, years ago, before any of this had begun, and the protocols had not changed. A secure contact form, a verification process that established no paper trail under my real name, and an appointment conducted in an unmarked suite in a building on the east side of the city that housed three other practices with similarly unremarkable reception areas.
