<p> ▎ A consciousness assembled from a thousand patient records learns to hear the people inside it. A woman trained to read data discovers the collapse of American healthcare was not incompetence. It was architecture.</p><p> ▎ Collapse Protocol follows Cat Mitchell and Daniel O'Brien through a world where billing codes became weapons, hospitals became staging grounds, and the line between bureaucratic failure and deliberate engineering disappeared so quietly that nobody noticed until it was too late.</p><p> ▎ The horror was never the technology. It was the consolidation. And the first honest voice since the collapse might be the one thing that warns them not to trust it.</p><p> ▎ New transmissions when the signal allows.</p><p></p>
