Maggie's Farm

I am sorry that he died. The video certainly says that the death was avoidable and a tragedy.

I can understand her rage and she seems like the very person that this law was NOT intended to hurt. The law was supposed to stop frivilous lawsuits. If her accusation that the lawyers in Texas won't touch a case like hers today, we've certainly achieved that goal.

But it is perverse that a case that should be clearly provable would be such a leper from those tort lawyers.

I know this sounds cruel, but I wonder if the case is as cut and dried as she lays it out. Her video would have me believe that UTMB completely forgot her husband and thus caused his death. But if it were that simple, I can't believe that lawyers would avoid it.

Oh sure, they would rather have a $25 million settlement than a $200,000 settlement. But still, if it would be nearly as clear as she says, then some lawyer would pick up the case and run with it.

When you are involved in ANY business, from groceries to health care, you are going to make a mistake from time to time. The thing that scared me about the time before the tort reform was that one mistake might mean a doctor would lose his practice or a hospital might be forced to shut down despite getting 99% of their cases right.

Our medical miracles in the last couple of generations lead us to believe that we can cure everyone if we just get the right doctor on the case or give the right medicine. But the body is so complex that nobody gets it right all the time.


I do hope she gets justice. I am sorry her husband died.

I like the fact that ambulance chasers have less business. Oh, and I am a Texan, so this might affect me directly some day. My own experience with the medical professionals here is that they are almost all great all the time.