What I thought was crazy was the statistics they gave for Crownsville in this chapter. For example, "In 1955, the year Elsie died, the population of Crownsville was at record high of more than 2,700 patients, nearly eight hundred above maximum capacity". "Crownsville averaged one doctor for every 225 patients".
That mean Elsie Lacks had little to no treatment at all! She went to Crownsville for nothing! It's so sad that the family didn't know any of this. Deborah said that she would've got Elsie out herself if she knew these statistics.
I guess she needed closure for Henrietta's cells and what happened to Elsie to come to peace. She was so happy that they found a picture of Elsie even though it seemed really eerie. The doctor with white hands was choking her and she looked like she was struggling or in a lot of pain.
In the medical records chapter, my favorite part was when Deborah and Rebecca was in the hotel and Deborah "trusted" Rebecca with Henrietta's medical records for her to do research.
I put parentheses between trusted because it seemed like she didn't at all. She would visit Rebecca every 30 minutes to have small talk just to check up on the medical records.
What really made me laugh was when Deborah went crazy on Rebecca and slammed her to wall grasping her because she thought that she couldn't be trusted.
Rebecca yelled "get the fuck off me and chill the fuck out". What made me laugh was that Deborah smiled and said that she never seen Rebecca mad before, as if she was testing Rebecca this whole time.
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