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Synopsis
The tragic story of a negligence suit that pitted doctors against lawyers in a malpractice case involving a profoundly handicapped child.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
[Werth's] persistent investigation, well-organized writing, and dramatic but not soap-operatic narrative style bring all elements of their story to life. He shows how relations among patients, physicians, hospitals, lawyers, and insurers gradually shifted and what major roles psychology and fear rather than justice and logic played. Well paced, gripping, believable, Damages is a first-rate account of a basically irrational process.
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Beatty
'Damages' is a rich, if uneven, account of [a] malpractice case. . . . The book is crushingly sad, of course, but it's also a vivid study of denial. There's the doctor, who seems arrogant and blames the hospital. . . . There's the hospital, which comes off as inept and claims there was a fetal accident. There are the insurance-company executives, who don't think the Sabias deserve a giant settlement for Little Tony's care, because they figure he's going to die soon anyway. And there's Big Tony, a hotheaded but dedicated father. . . . 'Damages,' unfortunately, never really takes off like, say, [d. Harr's] 'A Civil Action.' The case is convoluted, the cast of lawyers and doctors faceless and vast. Werth is a meticulous, evenhanded reporter, but he spends too little time evoking the Sabias' life and too much transcribing dull depositions.
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Giles
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