So I'm talking to a doctor friend of mine the other day when I find out his brother is a medical malpractice attorney. I found myself thinking that has got to be a little odd during the holidays. How often do you have a doctor and lawyer, and a medical malpractice attorney at that, in the same family?
I can only guess what Christmas is like. The doctor is telling all those crazy doctor stories about patients who are awake and can't move or other record clinical findings and other oddities while the medical malpractice lawyer brother is taking hidden audio and video of the whole going down.
But seriously, I asked the doc what it's like to have a brother for a medical malpractice lawyer and he said, his brother and him have an agreement.
My brother will never sue me on behalf of a client. On the other hand, his partners have no problem suing me.
How about that. A lawyer with a sense of loyalty. Family over justice. I'm not sure if I should commend him or despise him. If you're going to be a medical malpractice lawyer in search of truth and justice, shouldn't your client's justice come before loyalty to your family, if in fact medical malpractice was really about justice and not winning the jack pot?
This doctor is either going to be either really busy or have nothing to do. If all the doctors on staff found out he had a medical malpractice attorney for a brother and that brother had agreed to never sue on behalf of any patient his brother is caring for, the other doctors will either never consult him out of spite or consult him on everything so the lawyer brother never sues.
See, there's always a glass half full in the legal system. If you are a medical malpractice attorney and your relative was a doctor who screwed up big time, would you not sue on behalf of your client out of family loyalty or would justice prevail and bring havoc to the Christmas cheer?
