Chapter 3
Presumably the reader will understand my anger once I realized what
had been done to me. These days my anger at the subhuman cretin
responsible (cretins actually, but that is for another time) is
rather casual. That doctor is a young man, and will likely harm
many more patients. I know of at least one who as died as a result of his
malpractice, a young man, much younger than me. Perhaps he and
this corrupt hospital will one day be exposed but how many will
die before then?
To briefly review the case, consider this: a doctor, entrusted with
the care of a patient with a relatively routine injury behaved in
such a reckless and incompetent manner as to cause my death or at
best my being left in a vegetative condition, to feed the beast for
months or years until the machines were at last turned off. Perhaps
at that time any salvageable organs would be sold off. One last
bite.
I should probably take the occasion to suggest that being identified
as an organ donor is a very bad idea. The time will come when, if
you are injured in some mishap or become ill, those who have custody
of you will see to it that you do not survive.
In any case, while Hospital A and Hospital B certainly committed
egregious malpractice, the doctor at Hospital C had the opportunity
had he been so inclined to quickly heal me and send me back to a
normal life. I quickly recovered from the kidney injury, as is
usually the case. All that was needed was a reasonable quality of
care. Whether incompetence or avarice - from what I know about the
hospital I suspect both - he nearly destroyed a perfectly viable
human being.
To be sure the actions of Hospital B were irresponsible, but in
failing to make any attempt to ascertain my condition or request
assistance from more experienced doctors he failed more miserably
than they.
But enough of that. What do you do when you have been treated thus?
Sue the hospital and the doctor? That is much more easily said than
done, as I would learn.
They're all around. Television, radio, billboards, Internet. If
you've been injured.... The self-righteous pontifications. For the
people. Boasts of success. Hundreds of millions recovered for
victims...
Ironically, like most I always regarded lawyers as unfortunately
necessary and hoped I would never need one. Obviously some lawyers
perform a useful service, even when defending a criminal they are
upholding our principles of justice - that everyone is entitled to a
defense. And business law is a mixed bag. I've met quite a few
lawyers, and some are relatives or friends of the family, and then
seem nice enough but I've not seen them in court. One did offer some
insight, which I'll relate shortly.
Professional litigators I have no use for. With a few exceptions the
rare 'crusaders' are mostly tools of crackpots and chronic
malcontents dedicated to the destruction of what is left of society.
The exceptions are those with an actual conscience who defend the
decent people under attack by the aforementioned.