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The Clinic Called in March
Nell Ardery is 36 and a clinical scientist in molecular diagnostics at Ardwick Diagnostics on the Cavendish Road site, which is where the trust sends anything that has to be answered in eleven working days.
- ~222 min (estimated)
- 48998 words
- 81 scenes
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
27 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Her husband is Amos Reyner, 39, who teaches maths at Ridgemount Academy three days a week and who built the spreadsheet they run their marriage on. They have been married four years and they have one child, Wren Reyner-Ardery, born 9 April 2024 and twenty-two months old on the first day of this book. Wren was named before she was born. The name is not a coincidence. On Thursday 8 August 2023, at 11:52 in the morning, Nell was eleven weeks into a pregnancy she had spent four years deciding to start, and she had two procedures at Marchmont Clinic on Rochdale Road: a private cell-free DNA screen at £340, and a first-trimester nuchal translucency scan eleven minutes apart in Room Two. The blood said low risk, below one in a thousand, for all three. The scan measured the space at the back of the neck of the fetus at 4. 6 millimetres at a crown-rump length of 62. 1, which is a number no one sh
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- a first-trimester nuchal translucency measurement of 4.6 millimetres that was never acted on
- a possible genetic or chromosomal condition in a living two-year-old that is never established either way
- a medical records failure affecting six hundred and eleven women
- a referral, blood tests and a wait of eighteen to twenty-four months
- a telephone call read from a script and a batch of letters posted in one morning
- a man who made a risk small in a car park in August 2023 and said nothing about it for four hundred and sixty weeks
- a spreadsheet that ran a marriage and a formula in column ten that could not tell a fact from a stranger
- a daughter's name as the only thing about her that has never been on a form
Cast
- N Nell Ardery Clinical scientist, molecular diagnostics, band 8b, Ardwick Diagnostics. Viewpoint character. The reader of numbers. no portrait yet
- A Amos Reyner Maths teacher, Ridgemount Academy, three days, 46,800. Built the spreadsheet. Said one in a thousand in a car park. no portrait yet
- P Perpetua Nkemelu Lunchtime supervisor at St Ambrose's Primary. In Room Two at ten to twelve on the eighth of August 2023. Correctly reassured. no portrait yet
- H Hilary Fenwick Senior midwife at Marchmont, nineteen years. Wrote the free-text sentence on the eighth of August 2023. no portrait yet
- D Dr Ines Kolar Consultant in clinical genetics. Signed the low-risk report of 8 September 2023. Says 4.6 four times on purpose. no portrait yet
- D Denise Ofori Biomedical scientist at Halloran Diagnostics in Sheffield, which bought Cavendish Molecular's records and part of its freezer estate out of administration. no portrait yet
- M Marcus Pryce Patient safety and governance lead, Ardwick Integrated Care Trust, twenty-eight years. Has a key to the portakabin and a photograph of a print on a box-cutter handle that belongs to nobody. no portrait yet
- D Dr Amara Sow Paediatrician at the Bridgeway Surgery. Makes the referral. Says without and watches her say it. no portrait yet