This is not unexpected, and the answer is a prepared one, preconcerted under pressure between the doctor and his conscience.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
You know well enough already that I never regarded these 'Agrarian disturbances,' as they are called, in the light of passing infractions of the peace, but traced in them the continuous working of a long preconcerted plan,-the scheme of very different heads from those who worked it,-by which the law should ever be assailed and the right of property everlastingly put in dispute.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
It would fling them all, as though from a preconcerted signal, into war....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole