I Was Elizabeth Holmes’s Prison Nurse. I Saw Everything

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The subject of the cringe-inducing hit documentary You Can See Everything was still breastfeeding her three-month-old daughter when she became Inmate 24965-111 at Federal Prison Camp Bryan on May 30, 2023.

The rules did not allow Elizabeth Holmes to use her own breast pump, but she insisted, citing the policies of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Officials at the Texas facility secured an official pump that proved inferior and difficult to manage.

The only other nurse at FPC Bryan was male, so Noella Turnage was assigned to assist.

“There were all kinds of things that were going on with that, and things that had to be worked out.

So basically, I spent a lot, lot of time with her,” Turnage told the Daily Beast.

At the same time, Turnage was the prison’s phlebotomist by default.

“We didn’t have one,” Turnage said.

“So I had one day a week to draw blood, and I would do 40 or 50 people a day by myself.

It kind of sucked.

So she was in the lab with me because, you know, she was trying to pump and try to work things out with the pump that we had got her.

And I had a counter full of vials of blood.

“I’m like, ‘Hey, can I ask you something?’” Turnage asked about the supposedly revolutionary blood-testing device super hyped by Holmes’ bio-startup Theranos , which she launched after dropping out of Stanford University in 2004 when she was 19.