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It began,

With an erroneous misconfigured calibration

An utter catastrophic negligence

Exposing patients to continuous radiation

With grisly side effects

Unchecked

For months the error went unseen

Progress crawling to a halt

Conditions worsening

Severe complications start to rise

Tumors swell nausea vomiting intensifies

Flesh reactions, ulceration

Bone necrosis, myelopathy

Hastened by the radiation

Stenosis of the esophagus

The blatant lie disguised at Riverside

Drawing next to no attention and none at all outside

Killed silently by the very radiotherapy

Administered to cure their disease

Measured death!

A sedated state of languid consciousness

Bereavement force fed while families grieve

Documents falsified to conceal the evidence

A covert deceiving spree

Passed down

Blame falls on faulty instruments

Staking human error

As their claim to innocence

The pain and suffering

Is indiscriminate

Leave them to their deathbed hospice

Without sentiment

It began,

with an erroneous misconfigured calibration

An utter catastrophic negligence

Exposing patients to continuous radiation

With grisly side effects