There was already a physician on the estate. Roman explained to me that he never went anywhere without one before I had been healed, as his disease often made him prone to various maladies. Not to mention that sometimes, in his attempts to keep moving (for to stop moving would only allow the overgrowing bones to debilitate him more), snapping the finer strands of bones sometimes fractured his primary bones, the ones he actually needed. It was all mildly fascinating to me, and he probably sensed that, which is why he even went into such detail at all.