#Chapter 67 – Conferences and Conceptual Possibilities

ARTHUR Doris, Nathan, Emma, the head pharmacist, and the new manager we hired, Ethan, and I got into the limo. We were going to the biggest pharmaceutical conference of the year, the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals. It was in Philadelphia this year, so we had plenty of time to discuss strategy on the way to the conference. We were almost all the way there when Emma looked at her tablet, and she saw that the bottles we were using to test the development of the drug were interacting with the drug itself. "Oh no!" Emma said. "This is going to make the entire first batch usable." This was a huge setback. "We'll fix it. We'll work around the clock to get a fresh batch and make sure we get the drug to clinical trials on time." "Emma, that was a good catch. It's a good thing you checked," Doris said. Doris was right to praise Emma. Still, I wished Emma had noticed after the conference, not on the way there. I didn't want anybody at t