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want?”
    “I’m Ryan Dane, I work for Ben James,
and I believe I have an appointment with you this afternoon, Dr. Bender.”
     
    The man had the appearance of having
forgotten.
“Oh. Well, what would you like to talk about?”
    “May I come in?”
“Yes of course, but I am a bit occupied, so please get to the point,” Dr.
Bender hurriedly said.
    “Well, I’m on a project that might
benefit from the advice and/or perspective of IntelliHealth scientists such as
yourself. You see Dr. Bender, it appears that a small number of patients have
been given or nearly given the wrong medical treatment.”
    “I don’t understand why you are talking to me about this,” he said slightly
agitated now.
     
    With all the patience he could muster,
Ryan began again.
“Well, you see Dr. Bender; these treatments have been directed by prescribing
research faculty. Please understand, I’m not suggesting that a member of the
research faculty made a mistake about which procedure to follow. What I am
saying is that somehow the treatments were mixed up resulting in the patient
nearly getting an incorrect and potentially dangerous treatment. While the
error was indeed caught, it nonetheless stirred up a lot of attention,
especially in light of the danger to the patient.”
    Ryan paused while Dr. Bender considered what he had just said.
    “I am still not sure what you want from
me, Mr. Dane.”
     
    “Well Dr. Bender, while we were looking
at the possible mechanisms capable of resulting in such an error, it was
realized that the only group not consulted were the researchers. I was hoping
you might be able to give me some insight into how you prescribe a treatment
for a patient. Maybe it will yield some clue as to how these errors have
occurred,” said Ryan.
     
    “Hmm, now I see what you’re getting at,
let me introduce you to my assistant Dr. Sarin.”

Dr. Bender got up from his desk.
Heading out of the office with Ryan in tow, Dr. Bender said, “I study basic
research and do not prescribe patient treatments per se. Actually though, I
have some faculty in my lab who do prescribe patient treatments.”

After passing several doors down the hall, Dr. Bender turned and walked into a
lab suite.

“I believe the man who can help you better than I could, would be Dr. Jeff
Sarin, my lab director and research assistant. He should be in the lab right
now.”
     
    Dr. Bender led Ryan through a large lab
suite, and began asking for Jeff. With just a few tries, Bender found the man
he was looking for and introduced him to Ryan. Then as quickly as possible, and
with barely a wave, Dr. Bender left the two of them on his way back to his
office.
     
    Dr. Jeff Sarin was Indian, and looked
younger than Ryan. Fortunately he seemed much more personable than his
colleagues on this floor.  
“I’m very sorry to bother you, Dr. Sarin. I need some help, and it seems Dr.
Bender has given me to you.”
    “Please call me Jeff. My real name is
Vignesh, but my students cannot pronounce it.”
Jeff smiled.
“What can I do to help?”
    Ryan explained again why he was here.
    Jeff thought for a moment, nodding his
head.
     
    “Well, we do have four faculty in our
group that regularly prescribe treatment to patients. I believe some of them
prescribe treatments manually through our computer network, and others use SID
as the conduit for prescription. It really depends on the investigator, and how
they prefer to work. Both options are available to all.”
     
    Ryan said, “May we talk with one of
each; someone who uses the SID program as well as someone who enters the data
manually?”
    “Sure Ryan, lets visit Dr. Ellis, one
of our lab’s collaborating research physicians.”
     
    Jeff led Ryan to a workbench where a
gentleman in a lab coat was moving some equipment around on the counter. As
they walked over, Jeff told Ryan that he was one of the researchers who
preferred to enter his work manually using a typical computer network terminal.
     
    After a