I’ve testified against hospitals eleven times.

I’m saying it because if you’re building toward a lawsuit, there isn’t one, and I’d rather you hear it from me in July than from a lawyer in March.”

I said I was not building toward a lawsuit.

And Ottilie Brandt said, “Then what are you building toward?”

And I said, “I want to know what my son’s fifty-one hours were like, and I want to know who decided what, and I’d like somebody to tell me the truth about it in a sentence I can hold onto.”

There was a pause.