In the Belly of the Beast
Quiescent Benevolence
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter   1
Chapter   2
Chapter   3
Chapter   4
Afterword


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Chapter 3

Presumably the reader will understand my anger once I realized what had been done to me. These days my anger at the subhuman cretin responsible (cretins actually, but that is for another time) is rather casual. That doctor is a young man, and will likely harm many more patients. I know of at least one who as died as a result of his malpractice, a young man, much younger than me. Perhaps he and this corrupt hospital will one day be exposed but how many will die before then?

To briefly review the case, consider this: a doctor, entrusted with the care of a patient with a relatively routine injury behaved in such a reckless and incompetent manner as to cause my death or at best my being left in a vegetative condition, to feed the beast for months or years until the machines were at last turned off. Perhaps at that time any salvageable organs would be sold off. One last bite.

I should probably take the occasion to suggest that being identified as an organ donor is a very bad idea. The time will come when, if you are injured in some mishap or become ill, those who have custody of you will see to it that you do not survive.

In any case, while Hospital A and Hospital B certainly committed egregious malpractice, the doctor at Hospital C had the opportunity had he been so inclined to quickly heal me and send me back to a normal life. I quickly recovered from the kidney injury, as is usually the case. All that was needed was a reasonable quality of care. Whether incompetence or avarice - from what I know about the hospital I suspect both - he nearly destroyed a perfectly viable human being.

To be sure the actions of Hospital B were irresponsible, but in failing to make any attempt to ascertain my condition or request assistance from more experienced doctors he failed more miserably than they.

But enough of that. What do you do when you have been treated thus? Sue the hospital and the doctor? That is much more easily said than done, as I would learn.

They're all around. Television, radio, billboards, Internet. If you've been injured.... The self-righteous pontifications. For the people. Boasts of success. Hundreds of millions recovered for victims...

Ironically, like most I always regarded lawyers as unfortunately necessary and hoped I would never need one. Obviously some lawyers perform a useful service, even when defending a criminal they are upholding our principles of justice - that everyone is entitled to a defense. And business law is a mixed bag. I've met quite a few lawyers, and some are relatives or friends of the family, and then seem nice enough but I've not seen them in court. One did offer some insight, which I'll relate shortly.

Professional litigators I have no use for. With a few exceptions the rare 'crusaders' are mostly tools of crackpots and chronic malcontents dedicated to the destruction of what is left of society. The exceptions are those with an actual conscience who defend the decent people under attack by the aforementioned.