Even when a lawsuit outcome is favorable to the physician, the emotional turmoil is enough to drive some out of clinical medicine:
The whole process just wiped out this doctor’s will to treat patients again. She was so upset just thinking that she had tried so hard to save this poor girl – and was successful, only to be rewarded with an angry letter signed by “Money Grubbing Loser, Esq”!
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