Janice, first class piece of journalism. I was not expecting you to say you were his patient.

People learn these scripts in the media ; they insert the keywords and key phrases. People "come forward" out of a sense of civic duty, and then they have to play their little part because after all they are on TV or the internet. In my view and my experience, people who have suffered actual trauma want no part of this. It's not for public consumption.

<< but in a case like this, with damsel-in-distress melodrama having already been stoked by multiple media reports at every stage of the investigation, the victim statements took on a particularly staged, formulaic quality. >>