My local newspaper ran an article describing a child suffering the supposed ineptitude of the entire industrial-medical complex. Even the institutions are included in the list of defendants. Being good Catholics, they abstained from dragging the Creator into it deferring to His mysterious ways. [cough]
Of course the loss of a child is a hole that nothing can fill but only be compromised with. The vacancy sign will always flash in the night. What remains of the child will have to be attended to and it will be expensive. Anyone who has ever uttered the phrase, life is cheap, has never seen a hospital bill for life support services.
The plaintiff’s council believes there is a vein of malpractice gold
to be mined and are merely waiting on the assay. Their strategy is to indict everyone. To sling blame in all directions and see what sticks. Justice they will
howl though there is none to be found, only the amount of remuneration
to be haggled over and their 40% off the top.
This is but another reminder of the fragility of being born a human
into a world beset with dangers large and small at every turn of
every day. Speaking for myself, if and when a doctor/hospital/et al
fails at first to perceive and treat my child correctly, I will find
another doctor/hospital/et al before sunset. I love my children too
much to keep doing the same thing over and over expecting different
outcomes.
In the meantime, the sharks will always circle waiting for one of us to make a mistake.
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