Chapter 13 - THE INVESTIGATION WIDENS Asteron discovered that Sophie wasn't the only documentation problem.
Four historical inventory mismatches required review.
Two were clerical.
One involved an embryo incorrectly documented as nonviable.
One remained uncertain.
The regulators inspected the system.
They found shared passwords.
Weak audit controls.
Poor separation between donor and patient inventory.
Scanned consent forms without proper source verification.
And status codes that could be altered without adequate clinical review.
Denise Hall was interviewed.
She admitted authorizing the transfer.
“I believed the embryo was donation eligible.”
“What about the consent?”
“I believed it was being completed.”
That answer wasn't enough.
Records specialist Mark Ralston admitted changing the embryo's status during the migration.
He claimed he had followed a spreadsheet mapping rule.
One letter had been misunderstood.
One letter.
A human life had been hidden behind a computer code.
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The investigation was no longer about one missing embryo.
It was about the system that had allowed the mistake to survive for years.
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