THE PLANTIFF: Construction worker in Tulsa
THE DEFENDANT: Doctors
WHAT HAPPENED: He intentionally cut his hand off with a circular saw. When he was taken to the emergency room, he told doctors not to reattach the hand, saying that it was possessed. The man is now suing the doctors for not reattaching his hand, claiming that the doctors should have known he was psychotic.
THE VERDICT: Unknown
On a symbolic level:
the construction worker: people who give advice on this forum that think a disclaimer is bad.
the doctor: the open-minded reasonable others.
the hand: the disclaimer.
It is not the guild's fault for the disclaimer or the attorney for the legal jargon. It's the fault of the people who sue over their own ignorance, naivete, lack of principles or ethics, or just plain stupidity.
I don't like to read it more than once, so I just bypass the page with a bookmark.
Happy New Year. mo
