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He Gave His Number - Then Nineteen Surgeries Followed · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: At seven fourteen on a Tuesday morning in May, a
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  Speaker 1: road greater operator named Dean Rafferty swung his headlights into
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  Speaker 1: the service alley behind Vantage Orthopedic and stopped there. In
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  Speaker 1: four inches of late season snow stood a Clinic IV
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  Speaker 1: stand upright alone with a patient wristband zip tied to
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  Speaker 1: its hook arm. The wristband was eleven months old. It
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  Speaker 1: had someone's name on it. That someone was a twenty
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  Speaker 1: six year old inventory coordinator named Duane Barrett. He had
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  Speaker 1: no idea the stand was there. He had no idea,
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  Speaker 1: not yet, that the wristband was the thread that would
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  Speaker 1: unravel everything. There is something specific about this case that
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  Speaker 1: resists easy framing. It does not begin with a body.
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  Speaker 1: It does not begin with violence in any conventional sense.
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  Speaker 1: It begins with a doctor, a waiting room, and a
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  Speaker 1: young man who walked in with a sore knee and
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  Speaker 1: trusted the person holding the clipboard. What happened inside that trust,
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  Speaker 1: how it was located, measured, and then systematically exploited, is
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  Speaker 1: the kind of story that stays with you.
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  Speaker 2: Long after the facts are laid out.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of this episode, you will know how
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  Speaker 1: seventeen surgical procedures were performed on one patient over thirteen months.
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  Speaker 2: You will know that a.
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  Speaker 1: Physical therapist documented a critical inconsistency and filed it in
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  Speaker 1: a drawer where it sat untouched. And you will know
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  Speaker 1: what Vernon Osborne said to a journalist six weeks after
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  Speaker 1: his final appeal was denied, A statement so precise and
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  Speaker 1: so cold that it functions less like a confession and
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  Speaker 1: more like an instruction. Man Renner is a working town
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  Speaker 1: of roughly forty thousand people, the kind of place where
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  Speaker 1: a diner booth can belong to you in every practical sense,
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  Speaker 1: without any paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: Dwaine Barrett had one.
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  Speaker 1: Of those who four met Becka its diner Thursday mornings,
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  Speaker 1: seven to seven forty. Sandra Cho who had waitressed that
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  Speaker 1: section for six years, knew his order before he sat down.
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  Speaker 1: Two eggs over medium rye toast black coffee. He tipped
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  Speaker 1: four dollars regardless of the bill. He was twenty three
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  Speaker 1: years old. Juanne worked as an inventory coordinator for a
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  Speaker 1: regional autoparts distributor.
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  Speaker 2: It was not glamorous work.
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  Speaker 1: He tracked stock, managed intake logs, flagged discrepancies. He was
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  Speaker 1: good at it, precise, reliable, the kind of person a
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  Speaker 1: warehouse depends on quietly without saying so. He drove a
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  Speaker 1: ten year old pickup with a cracked side mirror he
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  Speaker 1: kept meaning to replace every week. He moved a small
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  Speaker 1: amount of money into a savings account earmarked for one thing.
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  Speaker 1: EMT certification. He had wanted to work in emergency medicine
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  Speaker 1: since high school.
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  Speaker 2: He was methodical about it. He was getting there.
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  Speaker 1: His girl friend for most of that year was Paula Dreyer.
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  Speaker 1: His younger brother, Marcus, lived about forty minutes away. These
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  Speaker 1: were the people closest to him. Not a large circle,
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  Speaker 1: but a stable one. In March of twenty eighteen, Duayne's
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  Speaker 1: right knee began causing pain during his shift. He described
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  Speaker 1: it to co workers as a grinding sensation worse on stairs.
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  Speaker 1: He was not a person who dramatized physical complaints. He
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  Speaker 1: waited two weeks before making an appointment. The clinic he
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  Speaker 1: chose was Vantage Orthopedic in Callaway County, recommended by someone
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  Speaker 1: at work.
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  Speaker 2: He had no.
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  Speaker 1: Prior relationship with the practice, no prior surgical history of
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  Speaker 1: any kind. The doctor assigned to him was Vernon Osborne.
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  Speaker 1: Osborne was fifty one, had held his license in Calloway
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  Speaker 1: County for fourteen years and carried a file of patience,
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction or views that any physician would be proud of.
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  Speaker 1: His record was clean, not conditionally clean, not under rev
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  Speaker 1: viewed clean. Before this case, there was nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: public record that would have told Dwayne.
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  Speaker 2: Barrett to choose a different door.
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  Speaker 1: Osborne diagnosed patello inflammation. The recommendation was conservative drest anti
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  Speaker 1: inflammatory medication. A follow up in six weeks. Dwayne followed
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  Speaker 1: the protocol. He came back in May. At that second appointment,
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  Speaker 1: Osborne identified what he described as a lateral meniscous irregularity
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  Speaker 1: on the imaging and recommended arthroscopic de gridmate. The procedure
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  Speaker 1: was according to the clinical consultant who later reviewed all
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  Speaker 1: seventeen cases, medically indicated that matters. The first procedure was real,
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  Speaker 1: the concern was real, the care was real. Dwayne was
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  Speaker 1: back at Booth four the second Thursday after the operation.
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  Speaker 1: At the six week post surgical follow up, Osborne gave
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne his personal cell number. He framed it as continuity
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  Speaker 1: of care so Dwaine could reach him to directly if
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  Speaker 1: anything felt off. It was presented as attentiveness, that is
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like. That is what Duane believed it was.
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  Speaker 1: What the investigators would later note was that this was
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  Speaker 1: the moment the relationship changed shape. Not the first procedure,
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  Speaker 1: not the diagnosis.
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  Speaker 2: The cell number.
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  Speaker 1: That small, warm, specific gesture, the kind that makes a
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  Speaker 1: patient feel seen, was the point at which the clinical
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  Speaker 1: relationship began to reorganize itself around something else entirely. The
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  Speaker 1: second procedure was in July of twenty eighteen, partial menasectomy.
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  Speaker 1: Osborne prescribed a ten day course of opioids and scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to follow up. Dwaane filled the prescription, followed the instructions,
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  Speaker 1: and returned to work at the auto parts warehouse as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the paperwork allowed. He was twenty three years old.
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  Speaker 1: He trusted the process. By August, a physical therapist named
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  Speaker 1: James Corley was reviewing Dwayne's post surgeon imaging as part
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  Speaker 1: of routine rehabilitation intake. Porley noticed something the lateral meniscous
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  Speaker 1: irregularity Osborne had cited as justification for the July procedure.
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  Speaker 1: It was not reading the way it should have read postoperative.
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  Speaker 1: There the image and the procedure did not align the
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  Speaker 1: way Corley.
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  Speaker 2: Expected them to move.
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  Speaker 1: He documented the inconsistency. He filed the note internally. He
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  Speaker 1: did not contact Osborne. He did not contact any medical authority.
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  Speaker 1: The flag sat on a file. That file would not
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  Speaker 1: surface for almost a year. By September, Osborne had introduced
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  Speaker 1: a new framing.
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  Speaker 2: Cartilage graft irregularity.
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  Speaker 1: A third procedure was scheduled, then a fourth. Dwayne's knee
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  Speaker 1: was not improving in.
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  Speaker 2: The way he had been told to put.
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  Speaker 1: Osborne had an explanation ready. Each time scar tissue underlying instability,
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  Speaker 1: a complication that had to be addressed before the next
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  Speaker 1: phase of recovery could begin. Each explos a nation arrived
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  Speaker 1: just as the last one was wearing thin. Then November came,
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  Speaker 1: and with it an explanation of benefits document from Duane's
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  Speaker 1: insurance carrier. Six procedures were listed. Dwayne had been present
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  Speaker 1: for four. He called the insurance company, He called the clinic.
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  Speaker 1: He got Osborne on the personal cell number, the one
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  Speaker 1: given at the six week follow up, as a gesture
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  Speaker 1: of attentiveness. Osborne told him it was a billing error,
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  Speaker 1: common administrative, nothing to be concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: He told Dwayne.
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  Speaker 1: The two extra line items were support procedures, build under
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  Speaker 1: a different coding category. Procedures so minor they did not
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  Speaker 1: require separate patient consent under the current filing structure. Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: accepted the explanation. That night, he went back to his apartment,
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  Speaker 1: and he did not call anyone else. What those two
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  Speaker 1: extra line items actually represented. Was this a ligament reconstruction
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  Speaker 1: that never happened and a nerve conduction study that was
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  Speaker 1: never performed. Build without Dwayne's knowledge, without his presence, without
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  Speaker 1: his body in the room, two ghost procedures entered into
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  Speaker 1: his medical record as fact. Paula Dreyer ended the relationship
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  Speaker 1: in October of that year. She later told investigators she
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  Speaker 1: had noticed Dwayne was different, slower, quiet, spending money.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't understand.
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  Speaker 1: She did not know at the time that he was
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  Speaker 1: managing post surgical invoices for equipment she had never seen.
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  Speaker 1: One of those invoices was for an IV stand. Osborne
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  Speaker 1: had told Dwayne the clinic's insurance would cover replacement in
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  Speaker 1: the unit, but that Dwayne would need to transport it temporarily.
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  Speaker 1: Paperwork logistics, he called it. Dwayne wheeled the stand to
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  Speaker 1: his truck.
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  Speaker 2: He zip tied his.
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  Speaker 1: June twenty eighteen patient wristband to.
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  Speaker 2: The hook on.
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  Speaker 1: He meant it as a private joke about how long
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  Speaker 1: this whole.
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  Speaker 2: Thing had taken.
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  Speaker 1: He moved the stand from the parking lot to his
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  Speaker 1: truck bed and then forgot it was there.
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  Speaker 2: He intended to return it.
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  Speaker 1: He never did, because no one from the clinic ever
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  Speaker 1: followed up. That detail means in a hospital high v
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  Speaker 1: stands sitting in the bed of a twenty three year
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  Speaker 1: old's pickup truck with a zip tide patient wristband dangling
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  Speaker 1: from the hook. That detail is the thread that will
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  Speaker 1: eventually pull everything loose.
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  Speaker 2: But not yet.
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  Speaker 1: By early twenty nineteen, the procedures had continued to accumulate nine,
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  Speaker 1: then twelve, then fifteen, seventeen total over thirteen months. Three
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  Speaker 1: of those seventeen would later be judged medically indicated by
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  Speaker 1: the clinical consultant, doctor Patricia Howell, who reviewed every file.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen would not. In February, Duayne's younger brother, Marcus, came
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  Speaker 1: to visit. He noticed the apartment smelled of antiseptic. He
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  Speaker 1: noticed that Dwayne flinched when asked.
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  Speaker 2: How the knee was coming.
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  Speaker 1: He noticed the stack of medical paperwork on the kitchen table,
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  Speaker 1: too tall, too dense for a single injury from eleven
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  Speaker 1: months ago. Marcus filed a complaint through the State Health Department.
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  Speaker 1: It was not a dramatic act. He did not present evidence.
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  Speaker 1: He described in plain language what he had seen and
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  Speaker 1: what concerned him. The complaint moved slowly through the system.
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  Speaker 1: These things always do advantage orthopedic. A billing coordinator named
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  Speaker 1: Lisa Pruitt had been watching a different anomaly. Accumulate supply
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  Speaker 1: inventory numbers were not reconciling the way they should. Specific equipment,
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  Speaker 1: the kind used in spinal and orthopedic procedures, was logging
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  Speaker 1: out without corresponding procedural records that matched the volume. She
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  Speaker 1: noted it she did not yet understand what she was seeing.
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  Speaker 1: By April, the State Medical Licensing Board had opened a
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  Speaker 1: formal investigation. An investigator named Teresa Richard was a sign.
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  Speaker 1: She began assembling a joint task force with the Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: office and brought in a forensic accountant named Robert Dunn.
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  Speaker 1: Dunn began working backward through Vantage's billing architecture, looking for
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  Speaker 1: the point where the numbers stopped telling the truth. Then
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  Speaker 1: Osborne came to Dwine's apartment. He arrived wearing the utility
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  Speaker 1: vest he carried a clipwork. He told the building manager,
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  Speaker 1: George Pell, that he was there on behalf of the
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  Speaker 1: gas company to check a line access point in the
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  Speaker 1: service corridor. Pell later described the story as slightly off.
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  Speaker 1: The phrasing wasn't quite right, and the timing was unusual,
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  Speaker 1: a midday arrival without any prior notice to the building.
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  Speaker 1: Pell noted the time he noted a partial plate on
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle parked at the alley entrance. Osborne retrieved the
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  Speaker 1: ivy stand from Dwayne's truck. He carried it to his
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  Speaker 1: own vehicle and drove it to the Vantage Orthopedic Service Alley.
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  Speaker 2: He left it there.
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  Speaker 1: The stand sat behind the claif for approximately three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Picture the Vantage Alley before dawn on a morning in
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  Speaker 1: May of twenty nineteen, there had been a late season
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  Speaker 1: snowfall four inches, light and wet, the kind that comes
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  Speaker 1: after the calendar says it should be finished.
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  Speaker 2: A road grater.
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  Speaker 1: Operator named Dean Rafferty was working the alley at seven
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  Speaker 1: fourteen in the morning when his headlights caught something that
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  Speaker 1: did not belong there. A stainless steel IV stand clinic
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  Speaker 1: grade planted upright in a thin layer of snow. A
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  Speaker 1: patient wristband zip tied to the hook arm. Raffertye stopped,
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  Speaker 1: he got out. He did not touch it. A detective
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  Speaker 1: arrived by nine in the morning. By that afternoon, the
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  Speaker 1: stand had been photographed, logged, and its serial number run
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  Speaker 1: against equipment records. The number matched the Vantage Orthopedic inventory log.
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  Speaker 1: The wristband matched a patient admitted in June of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The patient was to Wayne Barrett. One scenario moved through
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  Speaker 1: the investigation quickly and then collapsed. The simplest read of
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  Speaker 1: the evidence that Dwayne had stolen the clinic equipment and
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  Speaker 1: then abandoned it behind the building required explaining how an
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  Speaker 1: IV stand that had not been logged as missing until
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  Speaker 1: recently had ended up in a patient's truck and then
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  Speaker 1: in a service alley during an active licensing investigation. It
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  Speaker 1: required explaining the wristband, which Dwayne had attached himself and
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  Speaker 1: which no one disposing of stolen property would leave in place.
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  Speaker 1: It required explaining why the equipment returned to the clinic
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  Speaker 1: rather than disappearing. The more the investigators tested that version,
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  Speaker 1: the less it held. But the version that held was
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  Speaker 1: harder to see at first because it required understanding what
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  Speaker 1: the IV stand was doing in Dwayne's possession in the
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  Speaker 1: first place.
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  Speaker 2: When investigators traced Osborne's.
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  Speaker 1: April visit to the building, Hell's partial plate the time
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  Speaker 1: stand the gas company story go was slightly off and
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  Speaker 1: cross referenced it with the date the stand appeared in
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  Speaker 1: the alley, the timeline snapped into a different shape entirely.
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  Speaker 1: Osbourne had not simply left equipment behind in a patient's possession.
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  Speaker 1: He had sent it there, He had directed Dwayne to
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  Speaker 1: transport it, and then three weeks before his arrest, he
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  Speaker 1: had come to retrieve it. The wristband was the thing
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  Speaker 1: that broke the version. Osborne needed people to believe he
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  Speaker 1: had retrieved the stand to remove a piece of clinic
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  Speaker 1: property from a patient's truck during an active investigation. What
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  Speaker 1: he had not accounted for was that Dwayne had modified it.
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  Speaker 1: The zip tide wristband turned a piece of institutional equipment
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  Speaker 1: into a chain of custody. It connected the stand to
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  Speaker 1: a specific patient, a specific date, a specific transaction, and
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  Speaker 1: it connected all of that to the moment Osborne came
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  Speaker 1: to take it back. Forensic accountant Robert Dunne, working through
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  Speaker 1: the billing fileles found the ghost procedures. Two procedures build
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  Speaker 1: to Duan's insurance carrier that corresponded to no appointment, no
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  Speaker 1: o R log, no anesthesia record, the ligament reconstruction, the
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  Speaker 1: nerve conduction study. They existed only in the billing system.
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  Speaker 1: Dunn also found the supply inventory discrepancy. Lisa Pruitt had
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  Speaker 1: flagged months earlier equipment volume logging out at a rate
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  Speaker 1: inconsistent with the documented procedures. The numbers done later noted
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  Speaker 1: in his report, suggested the volume of materials match not
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  Speaker 1: seventeen procedures, but something closer.
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  Speaker 2: To twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: That gap six unaccounted procedures above and beyond the fourteen
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  Speaker 1: already deemed medically unjustified, remained unexplained within this case file.
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  Speaker 1: It would resurface later from a direction no one in
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  Speaker 1: Callaway County had anticipated.
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  Speaker 2: Vernon Osborne was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: In May fourteen, two thousand nineteen. The initial indictment carried
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  Speaker 1: fourteen counts insurance fraud, medical battery, and unlawful practice of medicine.
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  Speaker 1: At trial, he was convicted on eleven of those fourteen counts.
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  Speaker 1: The sentence was nine years. He appealed twice. The first
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  Speaker 1: appeal failed. The second appeal was filed in late two
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  Speaker 1: thy twenty two and denied in spring twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: But something happened in the weeks before that second appeal collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: In fall twenty twenty two, an unrelated fraud investigation in
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  Speaker 1: an adjacent county ran a DNA database comparison on biological
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  Speaker 1: tissue samples from a sealed two thousand eleven malpractice case.
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  Speaker 1: The samples matched Osborne's profile. The case involved a man
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  Speaker 1: named Carl Whitfield, thirty four years old at the time,
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  Speaker 1: who had undergone eight unnecessary spinal procedures at a clinic
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  Speaker 1: where Osbourne had previously held privileges. That malpractice case had
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  Speaker 1: been settled quietly and never criminally referred until now. Three
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  Speaker 1: weeks before his second appeal was denied, Osborne was handed
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  Speaker 1: a second indictment based on the Whitfield match. That was
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  Speaker 1: the direction no one in Callaway County had anticipated.
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  Speaker 2: The gap.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Dunn had identified six procedures worth of supply materials
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  Speaker 1: with no corresponding documentation, suddenly had a possible context, not
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  Speaker 1: a proven war. The second indictment was pending as of
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  Speaker 1: the most recent public record, but the arithmetic no longer
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  Speaker 1: looked like a rounding error. Doctor Patricia Howell's final clinical
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  Speaker 1: assessment had found three of the seventeen procedures medically indicated
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  Speaker 1: fourteen were not. Now with the Whitfield indictment, investigators were
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  Speaker 1: looking at a pattern that stretched back more than a
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  Speaker 1: decade before Dwayne Barrett ever walked into Vantage Orthopedic with
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  Speaker 1: a sore knee. James Corley, the physical therapist who had
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  Speaker 1: flagged an imaging inconsistency in August twenty eighteen, never escalated
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  Speaker 1: his observation. It stayed in an internal file. His documentation
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  Speaker 1: would later be entered as evidence, not because it stopped anything,
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  Speaker 1: but because it established that a clinical professional had noticed
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  Speaker 1: something wrong and the system had no mechanism.
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  Speaker 2: That required him to act.
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  Speaker 1: Further, that absence of mechanism would become one thread of
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  Speaker 1: the licensing Board's post conviction recommendations. Lisa Pruitt, the billing
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  Speaker 1: coordinator who had noted the supply inventory irregularity months before
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  Speaker 1: the investigation opened, was cooperative once subpoena.
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  Speaker 2: She had not understood what she was observing at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Her records became part of Dunn's foundation. Teresa Richardson's joint
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  Speaker 1: task force submitted its findings to the State Medical Licensing Board.
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  Speaker 1: The board's post conviction review resulted in revocation of Osborne's
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  Speaker 1: license and a formal recommendation for mandatory a cross reporting
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  Speaker 1: protocols between physical therapy practices and surgical therapy practices facilities,
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  Speaker 1: a structural gap the Corley situation had exposed. Six weeks
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  Speaker 1: after the second appeal was denied, Osborne gave a recorded
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  Speaker 1: statement to a journalist. He said that Dwayne Barrett had
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  Speaker 1: presented as someone who needed to be needed by a doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and that he had simply provided that. He said it
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  Speaker 1: as though he had done something generous. Dwayne Barrett was
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  Speaker 1: twenty three years old when he walked into Vantage Orthopaedic
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  Speaker 1: for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: He had a sore knee.
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  Speaker 1: He was saving money toward an EMT certification. He drove
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  Speaker 1: a ten year old pickup and ate breakfast at Beckett's
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  Speaker 1: Diner on Thursday mornings, Booth four seven to seven forty,
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  Speaker 1: close enough to routine that Sandra cho could start his order.
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  Speaker 2: When she saw him cool into the lot. He was
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  Speaker 2: twenty six when it ended.
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  Speaker 1: Three independent orthopedic surgeons confirmed etrogenic damage to his knee
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  Speaker 1: in summer twenty nineteen, damage caused by treatment. The limp
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  Speaker 1: is permanent, classified as mild and confirmed by people who
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  Speaker 1: did not know his name when they read the imaging.
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  Speaker 1: He completed his e m T certification in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: He still goes to Beckett's on Thursday mornings.
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  Speaker 2: Booth four.
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  Speaker 1: There is something clarifying about that detail, and also something
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  Speaker 1: that resists easy resolution.
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  Speaker 2: A man rebuilt a version.
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  Speaker 1: Of his life around the same booth where the erosion began.
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  Speaker 1: Whether that is resilience or the particular way a person
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  Speaker 1: holds on to the last co ordinates they trusted. Probably
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  Speaker 1: only Dwayne knows. What the record makes clear is this
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  Speaker 1: Osborne did not destroy Dwayne Barrett's life. He damaged it
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  Speaker 1: measurably and permanently in ways that three surgeons.
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  Speaker 2: Could name precisely.
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  Speaker 1: And then Dwayne Barrett finished what he had started before
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  Speaker 1: he ever met Vernon Osborne. The IVY stand is in
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  Speaker 1: the evidence locker at the Callaway County Shriff. The June
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen patient wristband is still zip tied to the
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  Speaker 1: hook on exactly where Dwayne left it. It will stay
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  Speaker 1: there for as long as the case remains active, which
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  Speaker 1: with the second indictment pending, may be some time. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: Osborne's statement that he had simply provided what Dwayne needed
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of sentence that deserves to be read slowly.
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  Speaker 1: It reframes predation as service. It assigns the origin of
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  Speaker 1: harm to the person who was harmed. It is in
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  Speaker 1: the language this episode has been tracing for the past hour,
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  Speaker 1: the manipulation continuing past the conviction, past the prison sentence,
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  Speaker 1: into the recorded word. The question this case leaves open
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  Speaker 1: is not whether what happened to Dwayne was wrong. The
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  Speaker 1: leven jurors and three surgeons settled that The question is
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  Speaker 1: quieter and more uncomfortable. How many James Corley's are there
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  Speaker 1: documentation sitting in internal files, waiting for a mechanism that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist yet. How many Carl Whitfield's settled quietly because
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  Speaker 1: the system made criminal referral optional. Dwayne Barrett's wristband is
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  Speaker 1: in an evidence locker because he zip tied it to
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  Speaker 1: a piece of equipment as a private joke, and that
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  Speaker 1: joke outlasted Vernon Osborne's freedom. Some things you hold on
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  Speaker 1: to without knowing why It turns out that matters. This
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