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She didn’t answer

“If you tookway, I’ that you didn’t like needles and that it see your profession”

“I know”

“Yet you’re ultrasensitive about it”

“It’s not so I’m proud of”

Ah, he was starting to catch on McKenzie didn’t like to have a weakness, to be vulnerable in regard to anything That he understood all too well and had erected soo to keep hiuilt he experienced and then some

“Lots of people have a fear of needles,” he assured her They saw it almost daily at the clinic

“I passed out the last ti of herself

“Happens to lots of folks”

“I had to take an antianxiety medication to calm a panic attack before I could even make myself sit in the phlebotomist’s chair and then I still passed out”

“Not unheard of”

“But not good for a doctor to be that hen she goes around ordering labs for her patients What kind of example do I set?”

“People have different phobias, McKenzie You can’t help what you’re afraid of It’s not like we get to pick and choose”

She seemed to consider what he’d said

“What are your phobias, Lance?”