Bad Blood

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Industry—Kickoff Review” dated September 28, 2010.

In a report he’d put together: Hunter’s August 26, 2010, memo to Walgreens
executives.


Hunter asked about the blood-test results: Minutes of video conference between
Theranos and Walgreens held between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. CDT on
October 6, 2010.


Elizabeth and Sunny had a testy exchange: Minutes of video conference between
Theranos and Walgreens held between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. CDT on
November 10, 2010.


The contract the companies had signed: Schedule B of July 2010 Theranos Master
Purchase Agreement.


Documents it gave Walgreens stated: “Project Beta—Disrupting the Lab Industry—
Kickoff Review,” 5.


It was a letter dated April 27, 2010: Letter marked confidential on Johns Hopkins
Medicine letterhead titled “Summary of Hopkins/Walgreens/Theranos”
meeting.


He’d gotten hooked on the subject: Richard S. Dunham and Keith Epstein, “One
CEO’s Health-Care Crusade,” Bloomberg Businessweek, July 3, 2007.


He’d pioneered innovative wellness: Jaime Fuller, “Barack Obama and Safeway: A
Love Story,” Washington Post, February 18, 2014.


Like Dr. J, he was serious: Dunham and Epstein, “One CEO’s Health-Care
Crusade.”


However, many of his colleagues: Melissa Harris and Brian Cox, “2nd DUI Arrest
for Walgreen Co. CFO Wade Miquelon,” Chicago Tribune, October 18, 2010.


8. THE MINILAB

The first commercial spectrophotometer: Jerry Gallwas, “Arnold Orville Beckman
(1900–2004),” Analytical Chemistry, August 1, 2004, 264A–65A.


Cytometry, a way of counting blood cells: M. L. Verso, “The Evolution of Blood-
Counting Techniques,” Medical History 8, no. 2 (April 1964): 149–58.


One of them, a device: Abaxis brochure for the “Piccolo Xpress chemistry analyzer”
available on the Abaxis website.



  1. THE WELLNESS PLAY


The supermarket chain had just announced: Safeway, “Safeway Inc. Announces

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