Ask a Medical Malpractice (Defense) Lawyer
January 10, 2017 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2017 at 4:01 pm by TheRealJoeFish.)
Hey everyone!
I was a proponent of the "Ask A" sub-forum, but I never did one myself, largely because I was going through a career transition and a whole lot of things were going on in my life during the second half of 2016. Now that I've got a long-term job and such, I figured I'd go ahead and do this just in case anyone's interested or has any questions about what TRJF's got going down.
I am a lawyer who represents hospitals and their staff when patients sue them for medical malpractice. I really like my job and find it really interesting, because it sort of sits at the intersection of multiple fields.
So, ask me about anything, including:
- becoming a lawyer (especially given that my true love/talent, as well as my undergrad degree, is/was mathematics);
- working as a lawyer
- representing doctors/nurses/hospitals when they get sued
- my cat, Space Ghost
- anything else
Come on, it will be fun! It's not like lawyers are the devil or anything
EXPLANATORY NOTE: I was browsing threads this morning when I came upon an interesting discussion of empathy and how it can affect one's professional life. Essentially, the contention was that empathy greatly burns you out, and that the best doctors are not *empathetic* so much as they are *caring*. I started to post in that thread, hoping to be able to offer an interesting perspective from a different angle (because I too see a lot of people in my work who are sick/injured), but my response kept getting longer and touching on more professional and personal considerations that I thought it might just be better to try to tackle some of it in the "Ask A" subby. So, go to town!
Note 2: Grrr I've gotta post this no I can't give you legal advice mofos
I was a proponent of the "Ask A" sub-forum, but I never did one myself, largely because I was going through a career transition and a whole lot of things were going on in my life during the second half of 2016. Now that I've got a long-term job and such, I figured I'd go ahead and do this just in case anyone's interested or has any questions about what TRJF's got going down.
I am a lawyer who represents hospitals and their staff when patients sue them for medical malpractice. I really like my job and find it really interesting, because it sort of sits at the intersection of multiple fields.
So, ask me about anything, including:
- becoming a lawyer (especially given that my true love/talent, as well as my undergrad degree, is/was mathematics);
- working as a lawyer
- representing doctors/nurses/hospitals when they get sued
- my cat, Space Ghost
- anything else
Come on, it will be fun! It's not like lawyers are the devil or anything
EXPLANATORY NOTE: I was browsing threads this morning when I came upon an interesting discussion of empathy and how it can affect one's professional life. Essentially, the contention was that empathy greatly burns you out, and that the best doctors are not *empathetic* so much as they are *caring*. I started to post in that thread, hoping to be able to offer an interesting perspective from a different angle (because I too see a lot of people in my work who are sick/injured), but my response kept getting longer and touching on more professional and personal considerations that I thought it might just be better to try to tackle some of it in the "Ask A" subby. So, go to town!
Note 2: Grrr I've gotta post this no I can't give you legal advice mofos
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Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
