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Mr. Edwards handled all sorts of cases. He litigated contract and insurance disputes. He sued the American National Red Cross three times, claiming that the AIDS virus was transmitted through tainted blood products, and obtained a confidential settlement in each case. He defended a Wilmington, N.C., newspaper owned by The New York Times Company in a libel suit.
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Having a daughter that suffered severe oxygen deprivation during a failed vaginal delivery I am a bit sensitive to cases where doctors drag their feet on performing a c-section.
Due to my wifes small hip size and the size of my daughters head the obstratician knew before my daughter was born it was likely to be a no go but decided give vaginal birth anyway.
When I asked why we could not opt for the c-section right off the bat he told me point blank that he would have a hard time with the HMO that we were with if we did not give natural child birth a try first.
Lets just say I was a bit livid while my daughter spent a week in the ICU while I was being told that she might have suffered permanant brain damage from the time she spent stuck half way down my wifes birth canal.
Palsy debate or not, more power to lawyers who go after doctors who make these kinds of ****ed up decisions for the sake of the bean counters. I know first hand how these situations go and I am not going to let some industry sponsored 'studies' try to dismiss the common sense about what happens when children are deprived of oxygen during the birth process. Even the article admits that around 10% of CP cases are from oxygen deprovation so who is to say that the cases edwards argued were not legitimate?
I find it a bit ironic that Moses is jumping on edwards back just weeks after posting that the quality of medical care would go down if doctors were protected from malpractice suits.
The fact that edwards has done a variety of suits but the focus is being placed on a certain type of disputed case he has won big awards on speaks volumes that the right wing spin machine is going to be getting as much mileage as it can get from this issue.