Chapter 20: An Appointment with Unit Medical

The notification arrived at 0612, before the first case queue populated.

It appeared in the upper-right corner of his terminal display as a standard administrative flag — amber, low-priority border — which was the same formatting used for equipment return reminders and Bureau-wide circulation notices about updated citation protocols. MEDICAL SERVICES APPOINTMENT, UNIT, read the header. PSYCHOLOGICAL FITNESS EVALUATION, ANALYTICAL ROLE STANDARD. REPORTING TIME: 1400. LOCATION: LEVEL FOUR, MEDICAL SERVICES, ROOM 14-C. ATTENDANCE MANDATORY. DURATION: APPROXIMATELY THIRTY MINUTES.

He read it twice. Then he closed it and opened the Class Two case that had been pending since the previous evening.