Specimen identifiers.

Eventually, an independent review concluded there had likely been an identification/reporting error somewhere between the outside testing service and the transfer documentation.

Serious.

Potential malpractice.

Separate issue.

The baby was still their daughter.

A laboratory error could create a lawsuit.

It did not turn a child into defective merchandise.

PART 17 — TEMPORARY CUSTODY

The hospital would not discharge the baby into legal uncertainty.