Holmes was found guilty of four out of 11 counts against her. Jury had to believe that she intended to defraud patients, not just give them bad results. The fraud against patiencs was harder to prove because there are so many individual people between the patients and holmes.
A tech startup said it could start a medical revolution with a little machine and a drop of blood. It was a fraud, but research into smarter, less invasive blood testing is a reality.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Haleema Shah.
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