“I just wish she’d told the truth when it would’ve mattered.”

PART 10

What the investigators eventually found was both more ordinary and more disturbing than any conspiracy I’d imagined.

Tiffany had sought medical help for a condition she wanted to keep private.

She had been given a legitimate prescription at one point, but after she missed follow-up appointments and became worried about restrictions on refills, she used information from our family insurance card to request an appointment under my name at a different clinic.

A remote consultation had gone ahead with insufficient identity verification, and the medication was issued in my name.