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In other words, you are in favor of urban juries awarding disproportionate compensatory and punitive damages so that a victim's family can become wealthy.

The words are your own--not mine. Awarded damages should be commesurate with the damages inflicted by the "doctors".

You can legislatively impose "caps", but you can't legislatively limit the amount of actual damage that the "doctors" inflict. BTW, the "doctor" that inflicted the damage on the school teacher happens to be the same doctor that performed lasik on Tiger Woods.

Ayn Rand referred to those with this attitude as second-handers. It took a few years, but the Dr. John Galts decided to stop the world. Hope they succeed.

Let's see if the patient of "Dr." Whitten is a "second-hander". Here is an article about the patient:

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1994/05/05-02-94cm/05-02-94cm-5.asp
I'm going to Disney World!

By MALANIE COX Collegian Magazine Writer
With her long black hair and young, olive-skinned complexion, Kashmira Karanjia is the spitting image of Jasmine from Aladdin. But she was just another Penn State student until she interned at Walt Disney World and got to be Jasmine in Aladdin's Caravan Parade.
Karanjia (junior-elementary education) has worked at Disney World for the past two summers as part of the amusement park's college program. Although her regular Disney jobs -- ticket sales and parking -- weren't as glamorous as playing Jasmine, Karanjia plans to work for Disney World after she graduates.
Karanjia said the hardest part about being Jasmine was not being allowed to talk. But her "Disney moment" came when little girls would hug her and say they wanted to be like Jasmine.
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But even the Florida humidity can get unbearable after awhile. Karanjia said not having any money and long shifts -- such as 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. -- were the internship's main drawbacks.

Your post about a purported malpractice patient who interned at Disney World, while touching, is absolutely irrelevant. It does not negate my contention that those who play med mal jury bingo in order to receive awards disproportionate to their actual damages are part of a problem fueled by trial lawyers leeching off of society through contingency fees. The "victim" who wants more than compensation, and the attorney who facilitates the travesty, are both second-handers who feed off others' hard work.

I understand your personal experience is driving this bitterness toward doctors. I also know that after practicing law for seven years in the geographic area described in the article that your experience is atypical.

Never mistake the law for justice. The statue with the blindfold should also contain a warning that justice is not only blind, but deaf and dumb to boot.

I have no personal economic interest in this debate. I've relocated to Dallas, and currently work as a corporate trainer in the legal publishing industry.