Greedy Trial Lawyer
Greedy Trial Lawyer Fixer - Using Blame For Good
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
As a greedy trial lawyer who has sought just compensation for those who have suffered because of bad medical practice, I don't have a lot of time to involve myself in other social causes. It takes major-league time and effort to get medical providers to do the right thing. Only an occasional doctor has announced during his depostion, "I blew it." The rest have waged all-out war to defend really stupid actions. I have been forced to go into surge mode in just about every claim.
Despite my decades of operating in a hostile environment, I believe making the healthcare system acknowledge its mistakes and compensate the victims of incompetence has been a worthwhile personal crusade.
After reading an article by Trisha Torrey I now recognize how much I have helped my clients and the medical profession by being a Fixer.
Blamers and Fixers: Which One Are You?
I've put the people who write to me about medical errors they have suffered into two categories: The Blamers and the FixersThe Blamers are those who [are] livid-angry, and they ask me to do things that will help distribute their anger further. They want me to help them write letters to doctors or hospitals or others who have wronged them. They want me to help yank a doctor's license to practice, or help them sue a provider, or participate in whatever form of punishment they believe is appropriate.
Their anger is just so palpable. And I get it! I was there! After my misdiagnosis, I talked to anyone who wanted to listen in hopes it would somehow diffuse my anger.
The Fixers are a step beyond. Fixers are people who have been hurt by the system, and have turned that bad experience into something else more positive.
Among my advocate-colleagues, you'd be amazed at how many of us are fixers. Very few have just chosen to take up the cause of patient advocacy out of the blue. Instead, their children have been killed by bad surgeries, or they've lost a spouse or parent to a medical error, or a diagnosis has been missed (or misdiagnosed all together) and someone they love -- or they themselves -- have been treated incorrectly.
The Fixing itself becomes the catharsis for the anger, and it is extremely powerful.
From Every Patient's Advocate
I know there will be some who want to tag me as a Blamer, but sometimes you've got to throw some blame around to fix things.
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