DAMAGES
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416594914 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the following years, he suffered from spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and cortical blindness, and would require lifelong medical attention costing millions of dollars just to survive. Werth explains esoteric legal and medical procedures in understandable terms that laypeople will not find condescending, while describing the human side of the Sabias' case without patronizing attorneys and physicians. But one of the babies arrived stillborn, while the other--Anthony Jr.--was barely alive, with an Apgar score (rating newborn vitality on a scale of 0 to 10) of 1. Ultimately, Damages is the chronicle of a devoted family braving a medical malpractice industry in which the decision-making process on bot
Barry Werth takes us through the seven-year lawsuit, allowing us to see the legal strategy plotted by the Sabias' attorneys, Connecticut's premier medical malpractice law firm.. Humes and Norwalk Hospital. At the urging of a friend, the Sabias filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. DAMAGES is the riveting true story of one family's legal struggles in the world of medicine
Buy this book! This is a wonderful book for anyone involved in the litigation process or anyone involved in the health care field.I am a structured settlement consultant who works with personal injury attorneys and some insurance companies. This is the best book I have ever seen about the process. I have purchased over 200 copies of the book to give to trial attorneys, claims professionals and other structured settlement professionals. All love the book. It reads like a novel.Don McNay. "One of the best books I have ever read" according to Awestruck Labrador. One of the best books I have ever read. It delved into legal, medical and social aspects of a heartbreaking case of medical malpractice. It also gives a very useful bird's eye view of the legal profession as it relates to malpractice cases. Extremely well written and researched.. If ever a book was undermined by its own jacket, this is it. A Customer Between the cover blurb from Jonathan Harr, which may create (unrealistic) expectations of a "Civil Action"-like page turner, and the fact that the jacket copy gives away the outcome of the case -- an outcome that Werth withholds from the reader for most of the book's length -- it seems like the publisher is so eager to make sure you buy the book that it doesn't much care whether or not you enjoy it. That said, the book itself is a compelling read, keeping a close eye on both the doctor and the patients and writing about both with clarity and sympathy. It lacks the narrative