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OP here. To my knowledge, hospitals have very strict protocols about preventing medical errors. For instance when nurses give medications, they need to check the [b][i]5 rights[/i][/b] first. [b]Right[b] patient, [b]right[b] medication, [b]right[b] time, [b]right[b] dose and [b]right[b] route. All those prevention protocols are required by law. Medical malpractice cases don't make our healthcare system safer. They make people afraid to become doctors because they are afraid of being sued.

The other thing is people sue for plenty of other ridiculus reasons. A couple of years, my sister decided the school the district wanted to place my niece was not a good school. My niece goes to a private state-funded school for autistic kids. While she didn't sue she did get an attorney to bully the district into placing my niece in a different school. Who is she, a non-educator, to decide that a school still allowed to be open is not a good school?

I googled my sister's name and found a YouTube video of her in a zoom meeting hosted by a local non-profit.  She told her story about getting an attorney and encourages other parents to "advocate" for their child. "Advocate" in this context means to disregard the advice of trained professionals and push for what you want until the school or district provides it. Imagine if diabetics told their doctors "well no doc, I know my body best and I'm telling you this dose of insulin is not right for me." They'd all be dead. Yet in the special needs parent world this behavior is often encouraged and praised. I also found out that federal law requires schools to pay for attorney fees for special-ed related cases if the parents win. I don't want my tax dollars to go to parents who [b][i]choose[/i][/b] to hire an attorney to get what they want.[/quote]

You're missing the part where the doctors were acting in bad faith. I don't get how you could be defending what they did to Maya or the steps they took to keep her from her family, religion, and everything else that gave her even a smidge of comfort. On top of that, their treatments were vastly ineffective and she was in constant, excruciating pain. Her mom committed suicide, cuz she thought they were gonna kill her daughter in that hospital and it was the only way they'd let her out.

The judge in the case made it clear that calling CPS or the court putting her in protective custody were not things that damages could be claimed for. It was solely the lengths to which JHACH went in carrying out court orders and the evidence they had in misdiagnosing her in the first place.

This isn't a case of someone going through something fairly routine and being sue-happy, what they went through was truly horrific on a number of levels. [/quote]

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