I never dreamed my malpractice trial would end like this

An obstetrician relates how he was sued for giving his opinion to a patient named Vivian Andrews. Andrews sued the hospital for not providing appropriate care for her pregnancy, thereby causing her to have a ruptured uterus and eventually lose her child. The trial lawyer was attempting to establish a doctor-patient relationship between him and Andrews during the time of the tragedy. On the day the verdict was given, the trial lawyer suffered a stroke and died two days after. Meanwhile, the obstetrician was acquitted for all charges filed against him.
As EMTs carried the plaintiff's attorney from the courtroom, the author was startled to hear the lawyer's parting words. Every Ob/Gyn lives in dread of a malpractice case. Mine was [...]