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I tend to let Feynman, Fermi, and Bayes guide my inquiries generally in that order. Part of the process is generating good questions; another part of the process is generating good actionable questions (tailored to the moment). Questions which are obvious, which are "horseshoes and hand grenades" type questions, based on what we know now. Follow things a little bit, test it, see where it's soft.

In this case I called public health and building inspection agencies and asked them what sort of ongoing inspections there were for clinics and other medical facilities. That turned up databases online, and keywords which turned up other databases.

What was the germ (pun intended) of this inquiry? Several years earlier, sitting in the waiting room of a different clinic, and the linen supply company pushes a cart through (gets buzzed through to the back) to collect the dirty linen, wearing gloves. Like they did this every day. Many years ago, the memo taped to the doors to a lab wing at a biotech: "gloves must be removed when greeting visitors". Various reports over the years concerning improperly sterilized dental instruments.