All Lawyers should be shot! (except my wife)

Sorry, I have no link on this. The source is the St. Louis Daily Record, October 8, 2008.


The story goes like this: At some time, Lambert airport (St. Louis) officials decided it would be a good idea to install defibrillators throughout the airport. There was no law forcing them to do it. They did it because it might save someones life and there is a general consensus in our culture that lives are worth saving.

On May 27, 2005, a fellow name Ted Satos suffered a heart attack while at the airport.

Quoting from the article

He was found by a maintenance worker, an employee of the city, who notified Southwest Airlines employees to call 911. A nearby traveler, a nurse, assisted the employee in CPR until paramedics were able to arrive about 10 minutes later, said Satos' daughter's attorney, Matthew Casey, of Casey and Devoti.
The employees failed to use any of the (defibrillators) in the terminal to treat Satos'

Well, in a society with as many attorneys as ours, no good deed goes unpunished. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed. The claim is that although the airport was not compelled to put in the defibrillators, once they did they became responsible for ensuring that all employees knew how, and when to use them.

What a crock!! The airport workers didn't cause Mr. Satos' heart attack and they did the best they could to help him, but sometimes people die and nobody is at fault.

So, let's go through some scenarios. No defibrillators, no lawsuit. Defibrillator used, man dies anyway...probably a lawsuit based on having a maintenance worker operating a medical device.

The net result will be that fewer airports, restaurants, museums etc. will provide defibrillators and people will die who otherwise could have been saved. Why would they risk the lawsuits, they don't have to put these things in.

When that blood is spilled I say it is on the hands of Matthew Casey.

I wish no harm to anyone, but perhaps Mr. Casey should imagine himself in the grips of cardiac arrest knowing that if it weren't for him and scum sucking lawyers like himself, a life saving defibrillator may have been just a few feet away.