This one has layers. Céline, 32, a private clinic nurse in Los Angeles charging $280 a session, had a patient book six follow-up appointments in two weeks — except when Céline was on leave, miraculously, his mystery symptoms resolved completely and he cancelled within minutes of learning she wasn't in. Her clinic manager noticed the pattern after appointment four. (The chart review meeting apparently lasted forty minutes and nobody said the obvious thing out loud for the first thirty-five.) Céline requested the case be reassigned. The patient switched clinics. The new clinic is across town. He booked a new patient appointment the following Tuesday. We just hope whoever's at that front desk has a solid "wave and walk."