Monday, May 29, 2006
$5 million for loss of sexual function
Think the lawyers were tugging on any heartstrings?Given her condition since the 2000 procedure, the woman offered her husband a divorce -- a man she met on a blind date, just a day before he left for the Vietnam War.
She told him she'd understand if her husband of 35 years, the father of their two children, the one who sent "Love Is ..." cartoons with all his war letters, wanted to leave her for someone else.
But love, he told her, is forever.
"He said 'I'd rather be with you than without you'," attorney Brian Hurst recalled. "And then he told her 'I don't ever want to hear you say that again.' I mean, these are the two most in-love people I have ever seen in my life."
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Hate to say it, but I'm with CJD on this one. I briefly dated a woman who'd been left with a foreshortened vagina following a hysterectomy. She was not happy about it. It did not do wonders for her love life.
And this doctor has had TWELVE lawsuits? Anyone can have a run of bad luck, but TWELVE?
And this doctor has had TWELVE lawsuits? Anyone can have a run of bad luck, but TWELVE?
# posted by 
: 8:59 AM
: 8:59 AM
Doe the effect on her life matter?
Is it different to say "no sex" to a 98 year old woman than to a happily married 50 year old?
Does the fact that it also affects her husband matter at all?
Does the fact that the doctor has supposedly been practicing poorly for years demonstrate that the medical system isn't doing a job job in regulation?
Do you know this can (and will be) appealed? And if it's reduced to $1 million, or less--will you post THAT on your blog?
I confess that I used to think you were looking for conversation, but I'm leaning towards thinking you're just posting inflammatory shit for fun. This is a really interesting topic of debate, but it's not interesting if it's one sided.
Is it different to say "no sex" to a 98 year old woman than to a happily married 50 year old?
Does the fact that it also affects her husband matter at all?
Does the fact that the doctor has supposedly been practicing poorly for years demonstrate that the medical system isn't doing a job job in regulation?
Do you know this can (and will be) appealed? And if it's reduced to $1 million, or less--will you post THAT on your blog?
I confess that I used to think you were looking for conversation, but I'm leaning towards thinking you're just posting inflammatory shit for fun. This is a really interesting topic of debate, but it's not interesting if it's one sided.
Kevin's a lobbyist on this issue. He's a bit reluctant about it, but like many physicians I think he feels helpless in a lot of things going on w/ medicine, and lawyers are easy to demonize.
# posted by : 2:10 PM
: 2:10 PM
I could debate this issue forever, but Kevin's remarks (so short and so cutting) makes me to angry to debate in a normal manner. It's very easy to tell the older experienced doctors who post here from the really young one's who basically have no experience in life tragedies.
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