Lane von Herzen: An Transcribed Conversation with Stanford Hospital's Lead Radiology Librarian

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

An Transcribed Conversation with Stanford Hospital's Lead Radiology Librarian

OIG Hotline investigators, following herewith are two excerpts from a conversation I had today, February 28, 2023, beginning at 10:45 AM, with Stanford Hospital's Lead Radiology Librarian, "Andrea."

Lane MacWilliams: It is my understanding that when one is reading a radiology report under General Information -- this is from Stanford Medicine -- under General Information, there is "Ordered by" and then the physician. And the next line says "Collected on" and gives a date and time that corresponds to the date and time of the test itself. Is that your understanding?

Andrea: That is my understanding.

(Later in the same conversation)

Lane MacWilliams: The truth of this matter is that "Collected on" gives the date and time that corresponds to the actual date and time of the test.

Andrea: That is my understanding.

Lane MacWilliams: That is my understanding, too.