About 3 years into my newly minted career I bought a practice. One of the patients that I had inherited sued the prior physician whose practice I bought due to his death. The suite named me in his place ( not for records but actually me).

The actual filing papers were so poorly written with numerous grammatical and spelling errors in the patient’s own handwriting.

She was requesting “ One Trillion dollars”,

I read it and thought it was a joke, so put it aside. While at a function a couple of months later I mentioned it in passing to a friend who was an attorney. His reaction that I had not notified my malpractice company alarmed me and I rushed home to do so.

Their discovery showed that the plaintiff had been using Cocaine and fell asleep on her infant son and accidentally suffocated him causing his demise.

In turn, she proceeded to sue EVERY PHYSICIAN, HOSPITAL, CLINIC ABD EVEN THE OBGYN WHO HAD DELIVERED THE INFANT.

I was the last remaining entity that answered this suite and would have had to SETTLE❗️

That shows how some malpractice suits are downright frivolous.

E Sang, MD