Ivy Pov:
I didn't check the phone right away. Patricia was still watching me, waiting for an answer, and my grandmother lay just a few feet away, her eyes open now, tracking the conversation with the kind of sharp attention that told me she understood more than her frail body let on.
"If I go on record," I said slowly, "naming him, what happens next? Does that trigger some kind of formal investigation on the hospital's end?"
"It would," Patricia said. "And I'll be honest, Miss Sullivan, powerful families don't take accusations like that lightly. If you're wrong, or if you can't substantiate it, there could be legal consequences for defamation but if you're right, and the ethics board finds evidence of outside interference in a patient's care, it would not only get your grandmother's fun
