Yeah, I'll want to spin it as less "doctor and competing doctor" and more "doctor and inventor of useful medical equipment". Hopefully it will help that I don't actually want to do medicine for a living and do want to invent things for a living.

Competition would probably drive the price of care down anyway if you sell the rocks to anybody.

Yeah. I guess I'll see what they're willing to try. The worst they're likely to do is say no, though I suppose they could also decide to tell every critter in Seattle that I'm a quack.

It's not hard to check!

Do you mean "it's not hard to check what they'll do" or "it's not hard to check whether I'm a quack"? But you're right either way.

Your diagram looks good to me; here's the numbers I got.

Excellent, thank you, those match mine.

For the new version she uses the same incantation as the previous one, but a somewhat prettier rock; it's actually a chunk of quartz she bought at a curio shop and enchanted already for durability. Does it heal little cuts and scrapes any differently from the other one, is the question.

Little cuts and scrapes - not much, maybe faster.

She tries for fifteen minutes to work up the courage to cut herself with one of the kitchen knives, then gives up and checks her email for any more sick people.

This one has strep throat!

Great, she can probably do something about that! Appointment: is scheduled. She hopes she can wrap up this phase of the project before school starts and eats her weekdays.

The strep throat person (a teenage boy) appears in a timely manner and, once he can talk again, hits on her a little.

Huh. She's never been hit on before; it's a bit startling. Does he seem to be angling for a date, or just want to flirt for the sake of flirting?

He's talking about a good Mexican restaurant and asking if she likes Mexican food!

She does like Mexican food, and says so! She's down to hang out with anybody at least once.

"You wanna go with me? Maybe Sunday for - uh, lunch?"

"Sure! Meet you outside the place at noon?"

"Yeah! At, uh, noon? Or... a quarter after might be better actually -"

"Sure, quarter after works for me."

"See you then!" he grins at her. And he stands there for a minute and then runs away.

She heads home and catches up on her jewelry-enchanting, then calls one of the two non-pediatrician doctors.

Dr. Tess James (judging by the fact that it's a woman's voice) answers the phone. "Hello?"

"Hello! My name's Margaret Peregrine, I have a magic healing artifact and I'd like to set up an appointment to talk about whether you might want to use it."

"...all right, I have an open slot Monday at ten thirty?"

"That works for me!"