The hospital's response to a scandal is not silence. It is an enormous amount of talking, all of it about something else.
For nine days nobody in that building said Orhan Baykal's name above a certain volume, and everybody said it constantly. His lists were redistributed. His office was locked and then, on the Thursday, unlocked and emptied by two men with a trolley while the corridor pretended to be busy. His secretary was moved to endocrinology, which everyone understood to be a punishment for a crime she had not committed.