Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. To be fair, I was terrible with record keeping when I first started; some things simply take time to become proficient with. [He can't help but feel that being part of a big family had bolstered his organizational skills, too. Keeping track of everyone's coming and going in his head had made writing it down for patients an easy transition of skills.

Forgive him, he is from the very beginning of 1950, so his first instinct upon hearing the word gay is to freeze, visibly. Then, with some trepidation:] Back home, your life would have been in danger if people even suspected you were - I never really had confirmation, but I'd heard that was why some of my patients were attacked, especially at night - are you safe, here?

[Anatoly has... issues upon issues regarding this topic. But Piper seems like a nice young man and Anatoly has seen nice young men brought, unconscious and often near death, into the hospital with grievous injuries. Most were inflicted by people they vaguely knew, coworkers or friends who had turned on them, with a small minority of men being those their 'partner' had turned on.

He had been one of the latter, once, but he can't think about that, not right now. Maybe not ever. The idea makes his skin crawl.]