Video Transcript
We represented the family of a man who arrived at Memorial Hospital System for what should have been a very routine surgery. He had a known allergy to a particular antibiotic that was known to the hospital and was identified very clearly. Through a series of miscommunications before the planned surgery, they administered this antibiotic to him. He had a severe reaction and died, and we represented his widow, making sure we could hold the healthcare providers at the Memorial Healthcare System responsible for the catastrophic mistake.
There’s nothing we can do as lawyers to bring a loved one back. We’re not God; we don’t have those magic powers. We don’t have that ability to do things like that. But what we can do, and we’re very proud that we’re able to do, is make sure the family has some level of compensation to live their life as comfortably as possible. Over all my years, I don’t think I’ve represented a single family who would have said, “I want the money and not my loved one.” They want their loved ones back; they want their loved ones to walk; they want their loved ones to go back to the condition they were in before the healthcare provider made a mistake. They want their loved ones alive. We can’t do that. All the justice system allows us to do is provide some level of compensation to them, and we’re very proud of our ability to do that in a meaningful way for these victims.
