The Health Care Bill has passed...

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Also, you have to get a lawyer to sue the other lawyer...

I won't do it, but I have a go-to lawyer to refer folks to when I see a legal malpractice claim. She does a pretty good job with those things. I suspect any lawyer probably knows someone who will handle a malpractice claim.. and since it can be malpractice not to advise your client that they might be the victim of malpractice, you better believe I'm making that referral if I think it's a good case. If that happens in a city like OKC's legal community (everyone pretty much knows everyone here), it damn sure happens in larger jurisdictions.

In thhe case in question, they had enough information to know that I was the resident who had read the CT Brain on the patient after she had coded, but they did NOT sue the anesthesiologists or the ophthalmologists who were present when the patient coded and basically became brain dead. The whole case was ridiculous from the start. Every person listed on the complaint actually helped the patient after the incident and got slapped with the lawsuit for our trouble.

Having the information does not mean that they had the time or expertise to properly evaluate that information, nor does it mean that they had all the information. There are just some things which can't be done until the case is at issue.