Lock In (Lock In, #1)

by John Scalzi

and a doctor can claim confidentiality from the second someone walks through the door.

This is not true. I am a lawyer

She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be.

I resemble that remark

“No,” Hubbard said. “Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.’”

Ah, the argument against ableism. *sigh*

It was a Metro Junior Courier.

Sadly, this is what passes for humor in this very dry Scalzi outing.