Funny, as a lawyer who handles the occasional med mal case, plenty of the clients were approached first by nurses and other health care workers who urged them to get a lawyer due to substandard care.
On the other hand, the doctors I've interacted with tend to feel like getting sued comes with the territory, as long as it doesn't stick. The ones who take it badly are usually the ones who screwed up.
Everybody makes mistakes. My first cousin was born brain-damaged due to hypoxia almost 50 years ago because the nurses held her knees together until the doctor got there. They didn't sue. My first child might have been saved if the doctor had remembered who I was, or if the hospital had told him that I was only 6 1/2 months pregnant when I went into labor. He rolled in a couple of hours after the phone call, expecting the usual slow nullipara delivery, but by then it was too late to try magnesium. I didn't sue, either.
Maybe I should have demanded that the hospital call him back and tell him I needed Slo-Mag or magnesium sulfate. I was young and trusting then.
I worked in labor and delivery as an OR tech for a year or so after high school, circa 1970, and personally observed the tremendous differences between "natural" (undrugged) childbirth, and labor and delivery when the mother was heavily sedated with "twilight sleep" and the like. As soon as she got the drugs, labor would slow down, sometimes cease. It's crazy and stupid, but it's a free country.
I would discount completely any so-called randomized clinical trial that did not make a distinction based on whether the mother was drugged or not.
Anyway, back to Edwards. You seem to believe that Edwards is venal and a liar, so are his expert witnesses, the defense lawyers are incompetent, the defense expert witnesses are morons, the judges calling the shots in these cases too stupid to find their behinds with both hands, and the juries even stupider than the defense lawyers and the judges. You, on the other hand, who never actually sat in on one of his cases, nor read the entire record, know the truth. Interesting . . . . unlikely, but no doubt you find it comforting to think about how much smarter, you, a nurse, are than everybody actually involved in the case. |
