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> Presumably you wouldn't do that to her after she saved your life.

I wish that were so, but disease is not confined to the reasonable, the rational, the kind, the respectful, or the grateful. On the contrary, the stress of disease and it’s associated burdens (social, financial, psychological, etc) tends to diminish those qualities in even the best of us.

Harvard did a huge study on malpractice suits a while back. They found that most medical errors that caused the death of a loved one did not result in suits, and most suits did not originate from medical errors. That is to say, the good or ill you do a patient isn’t the reason they sue.



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