She asked a statistical routine to compute the likely cause of the symptoms, given the fact that it could not be an appendicitis. The results flashed up on the monitor in seconds. Nicole was astonished. According to the data, if the biometry information input from Borzov’s probe set was analyzed under the assumption that the cause for the abnormalities could not be an appendicitis, then there was a 62 percent chance that it was due to a drug reaction.

