Forbidden Cure Part Three by William Rubin

Author:William Rubin [Rubin, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical Thriller
Publisher: William Rubin
Published: 2018-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Kennedy slides the papers off to the side of his desk, rubs his face with a meaty hand, then rotates his neck to release the tension. The reports from Detectives Riley and Goldberg were as expected, perfunctory. The three deaths in Hyslop’s lab occurred in a span of four months beginning eighteen months ago. It was the early, pre-Ravello days of the DMC, when the unit was in utter disarray. It was also the twilight of the detectives’ careers. As with all the detectives on the DMC at the time, Riley and Goldberg had no medical training whatsoever, leaving them incapable of appreciating the nuances of the cases. In the end they labeled the three deaths accidental, a result of poor reactions to their treatments, and rode off into the sunset of their retirements.

The FDA was not so kind. They issued a scathing report which cited multiple deficiencies in how Hyslop ran his lab, and they placed his program on probationary status for one year with regard to the lab’s fast track status with the FDA. The three patients were all experiencing transplant rejections just after surgery with an unidentified surgeon from Washington General. Hyslop did intake on the patients with no documentation whatsoever, just a verbal history provided by the referring physician, whose identity he fiercely protected throughout the inquiry. Hyslop formulated medications for each victim with little help from his two technicians, carried out the quality testing himself, and hand delivered the compounds to the surgeon he worked with. The patients died within hours of their second doses, just like with Irina Malekoviec.

Hyslop kowtowed to the FDA’s demands to hire a senior lab tech who would take sole responsibility for intaking patients; hiring and supervising technicians; overseeing quality control testing; sending the medications off to the treating physicians; and reporting serious patient side effects directly to the FDA. Todd Zigler was that technician, and single-handedly he restored the lab’s reputation as he nursed it through its probationary period. Without his Herculean efforts, the lab could never have survived. Hyslop continued to be the brains of the operation and direct the lab’s overall efforts while Todd shielded him from many of the day-to-day details of running the lab. It was a system that worked beautifully and heralded a remarkable expansion in the lab’s volume of patients and safety profile—until now.

Kennedy picks an unopened envelope out of Riley’s personnel folder. Returned to sender? Who lets their retirement check bounce back to the NYPD? He grabs the phone and dials up human resources. “Detective Kevin Kennedy here. I’m trying to reach retired Detective Connor A. Riley as part of a homicide investigation. You have an up-to-date address, phone number on him?”

“One minute, Detective.” Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ takes over the line for the next few minutes as the worker follows up on the inquiry. “Deceased. Detective Riley died a month after retiring from the force.”

“Ouch. Any details on his death, like if foul play was suspected?”

The worker scans the file.

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