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Update: Tom Brady fans can settle down. Instead of having him there in person, Brady's testimony was read to the jury.
Monday saw the opening arguments in the Charlie Weis gastric bypass medical malpractice trial. Weis is suing two local doctors, Charles Ferguson and Richard Hodin, because he suffered internal bleeding and still has trouble getting around after his gastric bypass in 2002 at Mass General.
If this seems familiar, it should. The case already went to trial in February, but the doctors being sued out a juror who had collapsed. Understandably, the other jurors would have been biased favorably towards the doctors – hence, another trial.
Weis was former assistant coach for the Patriots and is now coach of the Notre Dame football team. This might be a garden-variety malpractice case, but people got really excited last time because Tom Brady testified in the case and mingled with the masses. Sort of.
As for regular people whose professional lives might be impacted by the trial, Ferguson and Hodin still work in the area. Ferguson is director of Mass General's surgical residency program, and Hodin works for Harvard Medical School.
Today, an expert witness for Weis testified that Hodin should have operated on Weis to stop internal bleeding after the bypass instead of giving Weis blood thinner. When it comes to the details of the trial, the writers of Deadspin have already lost their collective appetite.
Weis will take the stand today.
Photograph of Michael Mone, Charlie Weis' attorney, explaining how things work in there by Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP.
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The man was 350 lbs, chose to have elective surgery having been told the risks, and has a less than ideal outcome. Of course he's gonna sue... those damn doctors must have made a mistake since the outcome was less than perfect.
Gee, in football nothing ever goes wrong that the coach shouldn't have predicted and avoided! Right?
Give us a break! Take responsibility for having gotten so fat as to have needed and insisted on rushing into elective surgery Coach! Surgery's a lot harder than coaching and you owe the doctors who tried to help you better than this lousy lawsuit.
Bottom line? Charlie would be dead if it wasn't for the intervention of a nurse who insisted the common test for bleeding be performed. Sure he went into it fast, but he thought that the doctors would do the right thing if any complications ocurred. If it was a family member of anyone who is complaining - I wonder what position would be taken then.