Edwards' wife has breast cancer

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Have you read the New York Times Article about Edwards? (login is "dropzone" password is "dropzone")

I've also bumped a previous thread discussing Edward's career. Perhaps you'd like to comment?

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
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>Your analogy would only be accurate if Sandy had filed lawsuits
>which forced gear manufacturers to make their gear an order
>of magnitude more expensive (so, reserves now cost
>around $8,000), but no safer.

When I started skydiving, rigs were $800 new and mains were $750 or so. Nowadays, the Mirage G4 in a standard configuration costs over $2000, and new mains are both more dangerous (compared to earlier gear) and priced well over $2000 in some cases. Why? Some of it is inflation and whatnot, but some is due to people like Sandy finding better (and sometimes more expensive) ways of doing things. Often this comes at the cost of people's lives; I remember more than one design change based on a fatality or near-fatality.

I know a lot of lawyers. One is a public defender, who defends people who can't afford to hire their own lawyers. One is into elder law, and helps older people deal with medicare, hospice care, living wills etc. She has filed lawsuits against medical professionals and insurance companies, generally for things like trying to deny older people medical care based on the hope that they will die before they can clear up the problem.

I also know one who went through law school to make money, and now are in the business of suing investment firms and mutual funds when they don't make money for their investors.

So there are slimy lawyers and good lawyers. The slimy ones are parasitic, and the good ones try to make the system better (and often succeed.) Lumping all lawyers who work on medical malpractice in the "bad" group is akin to calling all doctors quacks, or all BASE jumpers criminals.

[TomAiello 26]

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Lumping all lawyers who work on medical malpractice in the "bad" group is akin to calling all doctors quacks, or all BASE jumpers criminals.

I wasn't lumping anyone. I was commenting specifically on one particular trial lawyer: John Edwards. He's not only in the "bad" group--he's pretty much the single worst, all by himself.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Is Edwards like Sandy? I don't know; I never met the guy. But if he is anything like Sandy, then his wife is going to be in better hands because of his prosecution of inept doctors. If he's one of those ambulance chasers, then she's not.

You are right. I know nothing about Edwards, but even if the guy was a shit-head to doctors, it's his wife who has the cancer.

I hope she recovers, and i hope that if he previously was a shit-head, this experience makes him less so.

Anyone who has been through this kind of nightmare knows that it humbles you and, as painful as it is, the result is almost always a nicer you.

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Lumping all lawyers who work on medical malpractice in the "bad" group is akin to calling all doctors quacks, or all BASE jumpers criminals.

I wasn't lumping anyone. I was commenting specifically on one particular trial lawyer: John Edwards. He's not only in the "bad" group--he's pretty much the single worst, all by himself.

So who would you have to represent people who are injured by incompetent surgeons/physicians/drug companies? The way you tell it, these folks are like Gods, and can do no wrong. Is that what you really believe?

If I had a surgeon leave his forceps inside me, I'd want the nastiest SOB lawyer as my attorney.

Remember, the plaintiff's attorney does not decide the outcome of a case. That is up to a jury of citizens who represent society (whether you like it or not).

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