Chapter 2 - Marcus Discovers The Hidden Medical Alteration Document
The sudden explosion of static from the heart monitor cast a harsh white glare across the sterile walls of the Boston hospital room.
Marcus knelt beside the bed, his hand gently resting on his trembling daughter's shoulder as he scanned the rumpled sheets.
Half-hidden beneath Chloe’s worn brown teddy bear lay a laminated medical chart that did not belong to the pediatric ward.
With shaking fingers, Marcus pulled the document out from under the stuffed animal and tilted it toward the emergency hallway light.
His eyes widened in absolute horror as he read the bold header stamped across the top of the confidential paperwork.
It was a Do Not Resuscitate order, fraudulently authorized and signed just three hours earlier by Eleanor Vance herself.
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Attached to the form was a handwritten prescription adjustment detailing a massive, lethal increase in sedatives.
Marcus stood up slowly, the paper crushing in his fist as the full, sickening weight of his mother’s intentions crashed down upon him.
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