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Now that's quite an admission. Attorneys are damned if they do and damned if they don't with you people. Either we filed suit without going through your "independent process" in which case we're scum or if we do and the results are as I described so that the prospects of a recovery are nil, we are only in it for the money if we DON'T file suit. And we're still scum.

Why would any attorney take a case that he has to put over $100,000 in to if these is no realistic chance that negligence can be proven? Why would you put any client through that?

Doctors have to be some of the most arrogant and self-centered people around. And illogical. If you can't see the difference between treating a sick person without expectation of payment and filing a lawsuit without expectation of recovery, then no explanation will satisfy you.

I do a lot of pro bono work but filing hopeless lawsuits is not one of them. I used to do a lot more pro bono work than I do now, due to "tort reform."

You know IJ, you in your own words did not say it was hopeless, you just said you just said you could not make much money (250 k verdict max for 150k invested). We take on many times more than 150k a year in write offs for uninsured and underinsured and don't call those cases "worthless" or and give them any less diligence. And our bonus is that you are their salivating if anything goes wrong (bad outcome = call lawyer). You are not going to roll the dice with your $$ unless you think you will win. We take care of people for nothing every day and put on our money and livelihoods on the line doing it - you know why ? - because we give a damn. I have treated a number of malpractice atty's and their families in my practice because their people - I think you guys forget that about doctors - we are just a means to a financial end for you.