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Even a month later, after the New York Times published my thank-you letter,
即使一個月后，在《紐約時報》刊登了我的感謝信后，
no one had said a word to me about Laura being outside that door. And maybe they never would have.
沒人跟我說過一句關(guān)于勞拉待在那扇門外面的事情。或許他們永遠都不會說。
But the circumstances surrounding Laura’s death deeply bothered her uncle, Robert Levis.
但是羅拉死亡的遭遇深深困擾了她的叔叔，羅伯特·里維斯。
Uncle Bob called the Somerville Police to ask whether there was a police report that could help explain what happened.
鮑勃叔叔打給 薩默維爾市警方，詢問是否有一份闡明情況的警方報告。
I’d been told that there would be no report, as officers didn’t write up medical calls.
他們告訴我不會有什么報告，因為警官沒有寫醫(yī)學(xué)報告。
But Detective Michael Perrone and his fellow officers were so deeply moved by Laura’s death that they broke protocol.
但是邁克爾·佩隆偵探和他的同事們被勞拉的死深深觸動了，他們打破了常規(guī)。
They interviewed the firefighters who had found Laura and one of the guards on duty that night
他們采訪了發(fā)現(xiàn)勞拉的消防員，還有那晚執(zhí)勤的一位警衛(wèi)，
and viewed surveillance footage from the hospital’s cameras, describing all they observed in writing, in case that footage was ever erased.
查看了醫(yī)院的監(jiān)控錄像，記錄下了他們看到的一切，以防這些錄像被刪除。
Uncle Bob shared the report with Laura’s dad, Dr. William Levis, a former officer with the U.S. Public Health Service.
鮑勃叔叔給勞拉父親威廉·李維斯博士看了這份報告，他是一名前美國公共衛(wèi)生服務(wù)部官員。
I will never forget my father-in-law’s voice cracking apart when he called me.
我永遠不會忘記我岳父打電話給我時聲音碎裂的樣子。
“Pete, I have the most terrible thing to tell you,” he said. “They killed Laura.”
“皮特，我有一件最可怕的事情要告訴你，”他說。“是他們殺死了勞拉。”
Through numerous letters and phone calls, I obtained the grainy, horrible surveillance video showing Laura outside the hospital.
通過無數(shù)的信件和電話，我獲得了勞拉在醫(yī)院外的模糊可怕的監(jiān)控錄像。
I obtained from the state police the shattering recording of Laura’s 911 call.
我從州警察那里得到了勞拉與911通話的令人震驚的錄音。
I sought out every document I could find: police and fire reports, ambulance reports, state investigators’ reports,
我找了我能找到的任何一個文件：警察和火災(zāi)報告，救護車報告，州調(diào)查報告，
field notes from hospital inspections, and internal hospital documents, which I requested through the Freedom of Information Act.
醫(yī)院檢查的現(xiàn)場記錄和醫(yī)院內(nèi)部文件，這是我通過《信息自由法》要求獲取的。
And I spoke with lawyers at the largest medical malpractice firm in Boston,
我也和波士頓最大的醫(yī)療事故公司的律師進行了交談，
Suing Somerville Hospital would not give Laura the chance to live her life, to be a mother, to grow old with me.
起訴薩默維爾醫(yī)院不給勞拉活下去的機會，成為一名母親，和我一起慢慢變老。
Still, if its owner, Cambridge Health Alliance, was made to pay millions in damages,
盡管如此，如果該醫(yī)院的所有者劍橋健康聯(lián)盟被要求支付數(shù)百萬美元的賠償金，
it would potentially send a message to hospitals across the country to reevaluate their emergency room procedures.
這可能會給全國各地的醫(yī)院傳遞一個信息，讓他們重新評估其急診室就診程序。
