I don't get phone calls anymore about normal or minimal-abnormality reports. I get more focused calls, so I'm spending my time focusing on patients where there's really something significant to talk about; it's much more of a consultative type of relationship.

My phone is still ringing. I haven't answered any phone calls because I've got to stay focused.

I'm bad at returning phone calls.

It doesn't do a lot of good for me to interpret the study if nobody knows about it. There is value in my being able to interpret the study and communicate those results to another physician so he or she can make whatever management or therapy decisions are required.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear.