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by asveikau 1164 days ago
It's also baffling that she faces consequences for financial fraud and not the impact on patient health of knowingly giving faulty test results.
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Yeah, I hate saying stuff like "it only matters when it hits the pockets of the rich" because it's reductive and cynical, but seriously - how are the patients not better protected here? How is that not the bigger story?
It's because she didn't directly lie to any patients, she was insulated from all of that. They got her on lying to investors because those are the kind of people she was actually talking to.
that was what could be proved in court personally (that she had intent)

when it comes to the patient health there was not this clear paper trail

I don't know this area, but I suspect the regulatory framework around this needs revision so that government could discover that kind of malice, i.e. if there were some requirement of regular reporting that would have created the paper trail.