Posted On: February 23, 2007, 2:07 pm CST

Posted By: Chad Balaamaba

Jeff

looks like you're a bit confused, but that's ok, you sound like a bleeding heart, which means you think with your feelings. Nice of you to offer to use smaller words for us; looks like you probably have problems with the bigger ones.

It looked pretty clear like you were lining up behind the plaintiff, but heck, I just read it; I don't know how you 'feel'. Sleep easy, though, the plaintiff didn't lose a leg, arm, or other appendage; it doesn't look like drinking was involved.

You remind me of the kooks who argue with someone who is pro-life with comments like "well, what if your daughter is impregnated by a space alien, you'd want her to have that baby?!?"

Jeff, calm down; it appears no one is trying to take anyone's right to sue away in this column. Some of us question why there is a large contingency who pretend that anytime something goes wrong, 'someone has to pay'. Sounds like you are one of those people, Jeff. It's ok to take responsibility for one's self; I know, that's a big word, but I think you can handle it.

See, Chuck could be telling the world of the real dangers of this surgery, while he talks about how blessed he feels that he survived, how things have turned out so well for him. But instead, we get to read about his little lawsuit here, in the IJ, not exactly People magazine, but maybe he doesn't want it too publicized.

You have to admit, if the case was really going well for Chuck, odds are he wouldn't have let his attorneys call for a mistrial.
Sometimes we try to 'read between the lines' when we don't have all the facts. Nope, I wasn't at the trial, didn't perform the surgery, don't know if Chuck took the proper precautions or even showed up as a drunk patient for his own surgery. No, the best we can do is try to guess what really happened.

Now about the lost arm and drunk doctor thing, that was a really stupid argument, Jeff. Sorry.