When I first began writing this book, I thought the hardest part would be explaining its complexity. How could I possibly convince readers that so many professionals—doctors, residents, lawyers, social workers, even judges—could all move in the same direction without ever meeting in a room together?
But the truth, I’ve come to realize, is far simpler.
This story doesn’t require a conspiracy to explain it. It rests on three pillars that tie everything together.
1. The Human Code
Inside every institution is an unwritten law: protect the system at all costs. Doctors excuse one another’s mistakes, small and large, because to admit them would be to expose themselves. Lawyers bend timelines. Social workers adjust language. Everyone shields everyone else—not out of malice, but because today’s silence buys tomorrow’s protection.
It is not conspiracy. It is survival.
2. The Court’s Animosity
We had fought the system before—and won. When Lindsey was a baby, we defied medical orders and saved her life. Institutions do not forgive such defiance. To the courts, we were not just a family; we were adversaries who had embarrassed the system. And institutions always find a way to even the score.
3. The Research Imperative
In their eyes, Lindsey was doomed. And doomed individuals make convenient subjects. Dr. Stanley Plotkin, a renowned consultant to vaccine manufacturers, once justified experiments on such people by dismissing them as “humans in form but not in social potential.”
It is the same cold logic once used in Nazi Germany: complicated in its cruelty, but simple in its theory.
Seen this way, the story is not tangled at all. It is brutally straightforward:
Protect the system. Punish the dissenter. Exploit the vulnerable.
Everything else flows from those three forces.
These three pillars are the lens through which the book will be told. They explain how doctors, lawyers, and judges—all acting in their own lanes—still managed to produce a single, crushing outcome. Not through collusion, but through code. Not through chance, but through pattern.
The book that will soon follow will take you into the birth room, the NICU, the courtroom, and the records themselves—each scene showing how the Human Code, the court’s animosity, and the research imperative worked in unison.
If that sounds damning, it is. But it is also simple. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
This is the story of Lindsey and Rico.
This is the story of the Human Code.
And it is the story of how institutions protect themselves by sacrificing the very lives they claim to serve.
The book is in production now. Stay with me—because the story that was never meant to be told is finally going to be told.
You are an amazing guy Steve. The book will be brilliant. Cheryl, Lindsey and Rico would be so proud of you. Can’t wait for the launch date.