How NOT to Sully One’s Reputation: Avoid “Just” Going Along

Attorney: "𝙒𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙚"

Me: "There were 𝙉𝙊 breaches ... I 𝘾𝘼𝙉'𝙏 support this"

In 2023, an attorney asked me to review a case
↳ I did ... and found 𝙉𝙊 breaches in standards of care

Upon discussing my results over the phone, I said:

• The anesthetic was unremarkable
• The pre-procedure admission was normal
• The surgery appeared to been straightforward
• The post-anesthesia recovery course was routine

But he got extremely angry on the line
↳"𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩"

Turns out his client has a torn knee ligament and had convinced the attorney it happened during the surgery

But there was no evidence of this in the records
↳And I was refusing to sign a bogus affidavit of merit
↳Thus preventing him from deposing the participants

Or as other attorneys have called it ... "𝙂𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜"

𝗣.𝗦. - 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗿𝘆?