I showed up at the hospital to surprise my husband during his shift. But the second one of his coworkers saw me, all the color left his face. Then his eyes filled with tears. “He hasn’t said a word to you, has he?” Ben and I had been married eleven years, and for every one of those years, I had shared him with the hospital. He was a remarkably gifted surgeon.

Sterling tried to brush off her testimony as the emotional rambling of a resentful ex-employee, but Carmen didn’t waver under his pressure.

“I’m not after money or revenge, sir, because I already know exactly who took my son’s life.”

Then our lawyer, Jason Boyd, called Paul Miller to the stand.

A gasp rippled through the gallery as Paul walked up to the panel and set the original paper log right on the evidence table.

Sterling jumped to his feet, loudly objecting to the document’s authenticity before launching into a savage personal attack.

“Dr.