By Grace’s dad
March 18, 2025
Grace was my best buddy, as you’ve learned through the first few issues.
After she died, I reviewed the medical records with the help of a doctor who is a friend of our family. We quickly surmised that mistakes were made. The next step was to meet with the hospital CEO and the doctor in charge of Grace’s care. Strangely, they refused to meet.
Their reaction led me to look for a medical malpractice attorney. Through God’s providence, I was introduced to an attorney who told me the truth regarding why so few medical malpractice claims are filed. Here’s a summary of the meeting:
“They are bigger than us. Even in slam dunk cases, you only have a 1 in 10 chance of winning.” I asked why. He told me of a case where he represented a victim who had a sponge left inside of him after surgery. He lost the case. I asked why, again. He said he had 10 experts, but the defense brought 100 experts, claiming this practice is normal. He told me bluntly, “They circle the wagons around their own.”
After we decided not to pursue a lawsuit, God’s providence kicked in again, as you know if you’ve been following the story. Now that I’m inside the legal system, I’ve seen many more reasons why there are exceedingly few lawsuits. As an example, state statutes effectively prevent lawsuits through liability limits. You would expect any law designed to protect the public would result in a minimum loss of license to practice. In bed with our legislators and the legal system, the medical-industrial complex does not allow for that consequence. In Wisconsin, the medical “malpractice” statutory limit is $750,000. Assuming a victory, the payment doesn’t even come from the doctor – the statutes further require that he/she have medical malpractice insurance, so the guilty have no consequence for their actions. Even their legal fees are paid by the state-mandated insurance company. [If you’d like to review all 13 reasons I’ve found, related to the opening question, please read this article: https://ouramazinggrace.substack.com/p/schara-vs-ascension-health-et-al-47f.]
It is fitting to close this message with a quote from one of the defense attorney’s motions to dismiss Grace’s lawsuit:
The Legislature’s purpose in enacting a statutory scheme for covering claims for damages arising out of alleged medical negligence was to encourage health care providers to remain in Wisconsin by imposing certain limits on the causes of action that a patient or her family member can pursue, and the types and amount of damages that can be recovered.
What other profession has statutory protection that eliminates the consequences of their choices?
I’ll be writing more about what I’ve learned, since Grace’s death, in upcoming issues. That’s the mission God has given me to help ensure Grace’s death would be used to save others, as He said would happen in Genesis 50:20. Next month I plan to explain the big picture and write about how we got to this point of the medical industrial establishment controlling “health” care. Stay tuned.
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