Typically, I would use this blog to provide useful practical information for potential clients in the event they are injured due to someone else’s negligence. I always to hope to provide guidance and reassurance to victims of personal injury who may have come across my website.
But today, I was moved by an op-ed I came across in the Richmond Times Dispatch and I thought it was appropriate to share it with you. The op-ed, written by grieving father, Carson McRae gave a detailed account of tragic medical mistake that senselessly stole what is most precious from him, his young son’s life.
You can find the piece here.
What was most moving was the thoughtfulness of these grieving parents. They were faced with an unimaginable choice. They had to decide whether to let their son live in an incapacitated state or to let their son go.
Carson McRae in the midst of his grief points out to all readers that Virginia’s medical malpractice cap doesn’t protect doctors from frivolous lawsuits nor does it provide adequate compensation for lifelong medical care that often results from medical mistakes.
What it does do is prevent judges and juries from awarding fair, just and needed compensation to individuals who have been injured by the people they trusted the most, their medical providers. It also provides a layer of protection to a billion dollar industry that values profits over patients.
In the words of Mr. McRae, “End Virginia’s medical malpractice cap”.
