No. Why would I? I've never met you. As I've said I have good friends who are lawyers. I've never said all lawyers are bad. I've had bad experiences with lawyers who tell me what "should have happened" when they weren't there. Sometimes really awful things happen in medicine and nobody can predict them. I had a patient come in who was 7-8 months pregnant, no prenatal care (not uncommon in my patient population) who hadn't felt the baby move in 2 days. When we put the ultrasound over the abdomen you could see this beautiful baby, but it's heart wasn't moving. One of the many times where I just had to leave the room temporarily because I was crying. This woman was just saying "wake up baby, wake up". The worst part was that because the baby was so well developed, she delivered it vaginally, stillborn. She had to go through the pain and anguish knowing her baby was dead. I haven't ever hear a more mournful cry and I will never forget it.
Another case we had in the ER was a 2 year old who fell into his families hot tub (turned off) so it was called a warm water drowning. He was found by his dad who was one of our anaesthesiologists. The dad actually intubated his own son. We were able to get a heartbeat, as we often can with little ones, but the brain was finished. Again, it was difficult to even be in the room because of the level of incomprehensible pain this family was going through. You do your job, hold it together, and cry later. I also was at the autopsy of a 15 month old who died in the care of his babysitter. You just aren't the same after going through these things.
I know boop. May God bless you for what you have gone through and keep you safe so that you may continue the good you do.
I've had bad experiences with lawyers who tell me what "should have happened" when they weren't there. Sometimes really awful things happen in medicine and nobody can predict them.
I know this well too. Litigation is a poor way to reconstruct reality. I am not saying our system is a perfect one. But I am saying that it works best when it is given the chance to work. "Jury reform," as I have described it, is when the intelligent and successful serve on juries, rather than using their god given talent to think of ways to shirk service. With jurors like that, the "market" for bad cases (like quartz kidney stone) becomes all the more tight.
There will always be some "demand" for bad cases because people will always be unhappy about a service they received, even when you execute flawlessly. It takes time and effort to weed the garden of both disgruntaled patients and incompetent lawyers. So believe me I understand your frustration.
Take care my FRiend.
P.S. If you were Summoned to serve as a juror, would you think of ways to "get out of it"?