These were the words that shot through the air at me like a bullet at my at a recent meeting with my clients, the parents of a 4 year old girl who died in a local emergency room because the ER physician could not admit he did not know what was causing her illness, and his ego would not permit him to call the child's treating doctor for help. The parents of this little girl asked me possible excuse he had for allowing her to die. When I responded that the defense was that the "plaintiff" would have died regardless of the ER doctor's actions, that bullet came screaming at me. "You tell them to stop calling her the plaintiff. She is not the plaintiff. She is our daughter," the mother of this little girl said as tears streamed down her face. Still 6 years later, the loss of her child is just as raw as if it were yesterday.
