Over the next six months, Markingson's mother, Mary Weiss, tried multiple times to pull her son from the trial so that he could receive other forms of treatment. In April, she left a frantic voicemail for the study's coordinator, asking, 'Do we have to wait until he kills himself or someone else before anyone does anything?'
Elliott's self-professed obsession with holding his employer publicly accountable for its role in Markingson's death consumed much of the next decade of Elliott's life, and he uses his experiences to bookend The Occasional Human Sacrifice, his examination of medical-research scandals and the whistleblowers who expose them.
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