Every time the lawyers talk about "damages" and "fault," they use words that sound like clinical diagnoses. But how do you quantify the loss of a part of yourself? They look at me and see a survivor who needs a settlement. I look in the mirror and see a woman who had to trade a piece of her body just to keep her life—and I’m still not sure if it was a fair deal.
The doctors meet with lawyers to discuss the legal strategy for the plane crash, realizing that to win, they must find the hospital at fault.
But medicine doesn't work that way. You cut, you remove the rot, and you hope the body learns to live with the hole that's left behind. Today, I’ll put on the scrub top. I’ll stand on one leg and pretend the other one isn’t screaming. Because that’s what we do. We survive until the survival stops feeling like a chore. Key Context from the Episode: