Chapter 86 Section 5

On the fourth day, Sunny von Prow's original insulin test report was delivered to Professor Dershowich's desk.A total of four measurements were made, and the readings were 216, 0.8, 350 and "unable to measure".The professor immediately called and relayed the contents of the report to the experts, who concluded: "First, the accuracy is too poor to determine from a scientific point of view which of the four readings is 'correct'. Second , 216 is not the average value, so it is not representative... Which laboratory is this so bad?" In a word, the so-called "insulin readings" that the prosecution relied on to file the case are completely unreliable.

Satisfied, Professor Dershowitch made a heavy red cross on "Insulin in Sunny's blood".Good luck, Hallelujah! Near the end of the term, the "Medical Demonstration Team" reported their results. One: The prosecution asked their expert witness, Dr. George Cahill of Harvard Medical School, a dummy question in court about the cause of Sunny von Prow's coma.Originally, for an expert witness who has never been there, it is justifiable to design a virtual or hypothetical question to help answer questions, but the premise is that the question must be precise. For example, in the example of this case, you can ask: "If you received a 48-year-old comatose patient, female, with a history of hypoglycemia, blood sugar readings: 29 mg per 100 ml of blood, insulin levels: 216 microunits per ml of blood , can you, as an expert, deduce the possible cause of the patient’s coma based on the above information?” Because the description in the question is exactly the symptoms of Sunny’s second coma, the jurors can use the expert’s answer applied to this case.

The reason why the "Medical Demonstration Group" singled out Dr. George Cahill was that one doctor was highly respected and a heavyweight witness, and the other doctor asserted that Sunny's two coma were caused by "exogenous insulin". The jury's final verdict played a pivotal role.However, the crux of the matter is not Dr. Cahill's answer, but the prosecution's proposition. Regarding the first coma, the prosecution said in its dummy question: "...the patient's blood sugar was extremely low when he was admitted to the hospital, and there was no recovery after two injections of glucose. At 9 o'clock..."

Dr. Cahill replied: "...the patient may have been injected with insulin, because without 'exogenous insulin', two pushes of glucose within an hour should bring blood sugar back up." In fact, Sunny's medical records show that she only received a glucose injection at 9 o'clock that night. The time at 8 o'clock was purely the prosecution's imagination, or fabricated, or fabricated, or intentionally misleading. As for Dr. George Cahill's inferences about the second coma, one was based on the conclusions about the first coma, the other was based on inaccurate blood insulin readings, and the third was based on the so-called "insulin needle".

Bis. 2: Maria Singlaham testified that at the end of November 1980, she saw insulin and three injection needles in a black leather case.By January 23, 1981, when Alexander and Edwin saw the black leather box again, the insulin was gone, and there was only one injection needle stained with insulin left in the box.The public prosecutor therefore determined that the bottle of insulin had entered Sunny's body through a vein on December 20. The "Medical Demonstration Group" learned after visiting relevant departments that insulin must be stored in the refrigerator, and it will deteriorate and become invalid if the temperature is slightly higher.So if the vial of insulin did cause the victim's second coma, it shouldn't have been stored in the black leather case.

At this point, this semester's studies are over, and the students go to spend their summer vacation with the extra money given by Klos von Pro. After the term started, in November, Klos von Prowess went to Harvard to accept the second "trial" of "Dershowich's team". "Let's go from near to far. The last time, on December 20, 1980, the day before Sunny fell into a coma, what happened?" The moderator on that day was the professor's assistant, Jenny Baker.