after two weeks in an indian hospital, david ricci was flown home to seattle, and taken to the traumanit at harborview medical center. >> i first heard about david's case in july of 2011. i was sitting in my office doing some work and one of my colleagues, an orthopedic surgeon, dr. doug smith, gave me a call asking me if i had known about a patient up on one of our acute care floors with a number of drug-resistant pathogens. i brought up his medical record and saw a huge amount of drug resistance, drug resistance we don't typically see. all these r's mean that the bacteria is resistant to that antibiotic. knowing that david had come from india, i was immediately concerned, even before seeing david, about bacteria in the wound containing this new type of drug resistance. >> narrator: lab results confirmed lynch's worst fears. ricci had brought ndm-1 into the united states. it was one of the first cases to ever be identified here, and lynch had little to go on. >> there's not a lot of clinical experience for treating these bacteria, anywhere. in the literature, there's no books, there'