Missing the jackpot

Correction; he wasn’t playing the “malpractice lottery”, his goal was to fake a personal injury to make a claim against the city, not have doctors, or a nurse say, pump a logarithmically wrong heparin dose into him until he bleeds out or something. Some odds against that, to be sure.

I’d say fraud of any sort is always a lottery…maybe you can fool people, maybe you can’t.

But Fakers excluded, If you think most people hurt in accidents think they’ve won the lottery, they would probably disagree, and just wish for their old self and life back. Most of the people on backboards probably weren’t really that thrilled, or interested in suing the doctor.

Matthew,

Can you read? The guy wasn’t looking for a malpractice claim at all. He wouldn’t possibly have the damages to get any attorney to take it. The first poster is right, he was trying to create a claim against the bus company.

Comments that use common sense are better than ones that don’t.

matthew,

If you had common sense, you would understand what’s involved in a medmal case, and thus why “faking one” as this individual was doing, is a pretty difficut endeavor, and certainly not the way to make a quick buck. But perhaps knowledge on a subject before pontificating about it isn’t your thing. In which case, by all means, carry on.