Bad Blood

and he included his cell-phone number. Fuisz drove his black
Mercedes E-Class sedan back to Beverly Hills and, when he was just a
few blocks from home, dialed the number.

The voice he heard on the other end of the line sounded terrified.
“Dr. Fuisz, the reason I’m willing to talk to you is you’re a physician,”
Beam said. “You and I took the Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do
no harm. Theranos is putting people in harm’s way.” Alan proceeded
to tell Fuisz about a litany of problems in the Theranos lab. Fuisz
pulled into his driveway and quickly got out of his car. As soon as he
was inside his house, he grabbed a notepad he’d brought back from a
stay at a hotel in Paris called Le Meurice and started taking notes. Alan
was speaking so fast that he was having trouble keeping up with what
he was saying. He jotted down:

LIED TO CLIA people & cheated

ROLL OUT DISASTER

Finger stick not accurate—using venipuncture

Transporting Arizona to Palo Alto

Using Siemens equip.

Ethical breaches

False thyroid results

K results all over map

False pregnancy errors

Told Eliz not ready but insisted proceed

Fuisz asked Alan to talk to Joe and to Phyllis. He wanted them to
hear it for themselves from the horse’s mouth. Alan agreed to call
them and more or less repeated to each of them what he had told
Fuisz. But that was all he was willing to do. He wouldn’t talk to anyone
else. Boies Schiller lawyers had been hounding him, he said, and he
couldn’t afford to be sued like Fuisz had been. Although he
sympathized with Alan’s predicament, Fuisz couldn’t just leave it at
that. He got back in touch with Clapper and told him about the new
connection he had made and what he’d learned. This was the proof