Chapter 61 Section 11

A young man named Paul Kali was injured in a car accident and was admitted to the hospital. The doctor told him that he would recover in ten and a half months. As a result, Paul stayed on the hospital bed for more than five months. People with disabilities who can rely on wheelchairs. Jane spent half a year and more than 200,000 dollars to finally figure out Paul's case.Paul was injured in the head in a car accident, and then his body was severely swollen. The doctor prescribed steroids for him.But the problem is that when the edema is exacerbated by infection in other parts of the body and does not subside, the doctor fails to diagnose the infection in time, and just blindly increases the dose of steroid drugs, and uses them continuously for three weeks, which greatly exceeds the prescribed duration of medication.According to relevant medical literature reports, taking large doses of steroids for a long time will lead to osteoporosis, especially the hip bone.

Like the hotel fire case, Jane rented out a meeting room in a high-end hotel and invited the hospital's lawyers and insurance companies to sit down and negotiate.Within two rounds, the insurance company, which was originally penniless, offered to pay $1 million in compensation according to the highest standard, but was rejected by Jane. The news spread quickly in industry circles.Acquainted lawyers stopped Jian En on the street and asked him if all this was true.After it was confirmed, some people shook their heads to express regret, while others bluntly scolded Jane as the number one idiot in the world.Almost no one believed that Jane invested more than two hundred thousand dollars of venture capital into a mere medical malpractice case.

The Paul Khali disability trial lasted 15 days.When Jan Hilleman began his concluding remarks on a Monday afternoon, the courtroom was packed.Sitting in the auditorium with Jane's new and old colleagues, there was also a banker called "Uncle Bitter", from whom Jane borrowed the two hundred thousand dollars spent. "Uncle Bitter" was George Frigg, a vice-president of the Bank of Boston.Since Jane rejected the insurance company's offer of 1 million US dollars, Uncle Bit didn't think about eating and drinking, always feeling that his large loan might be in vain. The jury entered the deliberation room.Jane couldn't do anything, and came to the court on time every day like going to work, fidgeting in the corridor outside the deliberation room, like ants on a hot pot.Jane thought of his reputation and career, the lawyers who called him stupid in the street, and Paul Khali.At this time, Paul was sitting in a wheelchair, waiting for the verdict of the jury as hard as Jane En.

On the afternoon of the third day, the two heavy wooden doors of the deliberation room, which seemed to be closed indefinitely, were finally opened.The jury found the doctor and the hospital "negligent of duty" and awarded Paul Khali $4.7 million in damages! While Jane Hilleman was devoting herself to the Cali disability case, two professors at the Harvard School of Public Health were completing research on Warburn's leukemia.Speaking of the origin of this incident, in the spring of 1981, Anne Anderson and the Rev. Bruce Younger were invited to participate in a seminar at the School of Public Health.Professor Mervin Zelaren of the college was very touched after hearing their speeches, and he and a colleague embarked on a three-year research.

In the 153-page research report, the two professors wrote: "Considering all the facts, we think it is certain that the water pollution of wells G and H caused a series of health problems among local residents." "Water from two wells is inextricably linked to the unusually high rates of leukemia in the region." This report was later known as the "Harvard Health Report" in the Warburn case. The Boston Globe published a report on the study titled "Woburn's Leukemia Linked to Water Pollution."Jane Hilleman knew that although their case was a step forward, the "Harvard Health Report" alone was absolutely not enough. He and Anthony Rothman needed more evidence.

A week after the Cully Disability case was closed, Jane was still basking in the joy of fame and fortune when she received a second motion from William Cheeseman to the court, "Regarding the Expedited Judgment of the Warburn Case." motion".William hasn't been idle since the Section 11 motion was defeated.He first visited two world-renowned hematology experts at Harvard Medical School, one of whom, Dr. James Cendel, had just completed the leukemia chapter in his book "Hematology Course".Dr. Chandel reviewed the medical and scientific literature on leukemia and found no evidence that TCE could cause leukemia.When William asked them why the National Environmental Protection Agency listed TCE as a carcinogen, the two experts replied authoritatively that the National Environmental Protection Agency's basis for this theory was obtained from animal experiments.Strictly speaking, the conclusions of animal experiments cannot be applied mechanically to humans, because the metabolic systems of the two are completely different.William Cheeseman cited in the new motion and again urged Justice Skinner to dismiss Woburn "because the theory that TCE causes leukemia has no scientific basis."

In fact, the real motivation of William Cheeseman's "swift judgment" is all too clear.Warburn's leukemia has received more and more attention from the society.Who knows how many more "nosy" like Professor Mervyn Zelaren, how many research monographs like "Harvard Health Report" will appear? William had spoken to Jerome Fisher on the phone about his "motion for quick decision," but as before, Jerro was not interested. After receiving her Motion for Quick Decision, Jane Hilleman got to work immediately.Anthony recommended Dr. Aaron Levy, an immunologist from California.Dr. Levy, who has testified in court as an expert witness in numerous cases involving toxic and hazardous substances, also had his own thoughts on Warburn's leukemia case.He believes that long-term intake of low concentrations of TCE can destroy the body's immune system, allowing cancer cells to multiply and expand.

This theory is refreshing to Jane, but is there a concrete way to prove this thesis?Dr. Levy said he knew Professor Robert Colvin of Harvard University, an immunopathologist whose laboratory specializes in long-term monitoring of the immune system of organ transplant patients.But Dr. Levy cautions that such tests are expensive to do, and he doesn't know for sure what the results will be.