Medical Malpractice

As you all know, Dakota is just about to begin her third year in law school (it's a 4 year evening program) and while she is set on getting her certificate in environmental law, the courses she takes cover pretty much everything. I'm going to assume this also means she will touch on malpractice suits. Personally, I think this would be a really difficult subject to talk about because the case studies would be (I'm assuming) heart wrenching to read about. Think of all the stories you have heard about things going wrong and things go wrong all the time. After I had spinal fusion surgery when I broke my back, the powers that be "neglected" to notice that the medication they had me taking, *and* discharged me with, was the generic name of the medication clearly listed on my allergy bracelet. I had a horrible reaction but when we contacted an attorney's office to see what our recourse was, we were told that unless I had died or suffered life altering damage from it, there was nothing to be done. So you know darn good and well that the cases that are being handled by, say medical malpractice attorney New York have got to be some gut-wrenching and heart breaking cases.