"Medicine can be a minefield of uncertainties; no matter how thoughtful and careful we are, physiology is infinitely complex and fate is capricious, and occasionally something blows up in your face."
"the lawyers had decided they were not going to win the case...They couldn’t have figured this out four and a half years earlier? Before all this wasted time, the emotional anguish, and the more than $150,000 ...but neither side gave in. As this slowly unfolded, my mood turned from stoic resignation to a toxic muck of apathy and irritation."
A Patient Dies, and Then the Anguish of Litigation
A doctor accused of "malicious" conduct in the care of a patient
coped with practicing, and living, under the cloud of a medical
malpractice lawsuit.
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