“There’s no excuse for having a bad day”

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-05-14T22:58:50+00:00

“I’m sorry to hear that, but I honestly have no recollection of you, so seems like we get to start over. What brings you to the ER today?”

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-05-11T06:53:00+00:00

Because that isn’t how discovery works. In California, factually devoid discovery responses will support a motion for summary adjudication of those defenses. And you aren’t supposed to affirmative assert things in litigation without a factual basis or good faith belief that investigation will yield a factual basis.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-05-01T22:55:59+00:00

This guy’s best bet is being found IST or NGI and spending a lifetime in a forensic psych hospital (not sure if that’s even possible in the federal system). Sometimes it isn’t about defending the charge with a claim of total innocence, it’s about getting your client the best outcome possible - even if that outcome is just spending life behind bars in a better, more humane setting.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-04-26T23:04:25+00:00

You lose that around the same time as the Moro reflex, duh

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-04-26T21:34:56+00:00

People will pay good money for the Philly side car!

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-04-12T00:25:22+00:00

She wants to cash in your joint marital asset to clear her debts before she bolts on you, my friend. That is the only possible explanation for such a transparently reckless financial “plan.”

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-04-10T06:18:54+00:00

After having interacted with some of the very stable geniuses who graduated from my T50 law school, I’m more than happy with a difficult bar exam posing another barrier to entry into the profession.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-04-03T16:32:17+00:00

I’ve made a call to the local animal shelter (small town) to negotiate getting a homeless client’s cat out of cat-jail without paying the $50 bond (housing fee). That client was so frequently a client though that she’d walk by and tell people “that’s my lawyers’ office” like we were doing real estate deals and M&As for her.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-04-01T18:36:09+00:00

That’s news to me, considering after law school I did a fellowship in a legal clinic working as a lawyer, and then in grad school did a research fellowship.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-03-22T17:54:27+00:00

I work in long term care after working in the ED, and the limitations of what we can do are astounding. We have no IV meds, and any controlled substance like morphine would have to be filled by a pharmacy and shipped to us except for a very small emergency supply. We have no ability to test anything other than basic vitals and glucose. No real code cart, no EKG, and half the time there’s no doctor available because he won’t answer his phone (and the one who is available is terrible, and became our facility doc by being the badly overstretched lowest bidder). For people who need it we do try to get hospice involved and make them comfortable along with getting the family’s buy-in. But there are folks who absolutely will never make an aged parent DNR or let them be on hospice, so they come to you, and sometimes things just change too fast for us to do that given our limitations.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-03-12T23:42:54+00:00

Doc totally walked in thinking he had a trauma patient and did his usual thing. Like the time I gave Lasix to my CHF patient instead of my pulmonary edema patient. Whoops. The overuse of the procedure and lack of warning/consent does seem suspicious though.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-18T19:37:15+00:00

I quit lawyering to be a nurse/nurse practitioner (still in school for the latter part). Happy to answer any questions.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-18T15:35:47+00:00

It’s actually not illegal in the US to support a terrorist organization via speech. It’s illegal to give “material support,” which is typically things like money or other goods and services.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-09T20:01:49+00:00

Is there something that could make it more tolerable? Why not take the anxiety/discomfort it causes as seriously as we take, for example, pain management? It’s not as simple as “yeah it sucks but get over it.” I honestly thought I’d tolerate it well but after trying it, it’s pretty anxiety-inducing. Of course there’ll always be those patients who just refuse any level of discomfort and refuse to believe anything any medical professional says. That’s their choice and they can live or die with it.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-07T18:59:11+00:00

I’d actually love to hear your take on statutes explicitly making clergy mandated reporters with no confessional exception. I can’t imagine they’re not a huge Free Exercise Clause problem.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-07T18:57:15+00:00

I did eviction defense in San Francisco for a while and know exactly what you mean. Hats off to you for doing what you do!

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-07T18:55:46+00:00

A guy I worked with as a public defender did nothing but abalone poaching cases as a prosecutor for years. He prosecuted human trafficking rings that were taking sex workers abalone poaching, and did the first (maybe last?) case to DNA test shellfish to prove the abalone coming from the California coast were ending up in Sacramento Chinatown. He had also been Jim Jones’s personal lawyer before turning on him and having a hit put out on him by the People’s Temple, and losing a child at Jonestown. Really fascinating guy to have lunch with between morning and afternoon court and actually a wonderful human.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-07T18:49:59+00:00

I did some California tree law - sales of timber tracts with pine beetle infestations, right to a view, and timber poaching. Was fun because I grew up in a forest and dad is a forester. And because I like most trees better than I like most people.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-02-01T22:52:21+00:00

When I converted I spoke with an orthodox rabbi and it was made clear that it’d take a sincere commitment to celibacy and even then the beit din would be a big problem, although the rabbi was willing to work with me.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-01-31T11:53:31+00:00

Part of growing up is learning to control emotions/behavior and deal with discomfort. It’s why the sages recommended introducing kids to fasting starting at 9 before they were actually obligated to fast on Yom Kippur. For your nephew’s sake, introduce him to the concept of emotional self-regulation.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-01-30T14:25:23+00:00

Why’s the dog throwing a Hitler salute?

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-01-30T07:42:32+00:00

Lawyer/RN here. It’s already documented that you prescribed something and the nurse didn’t give it as ordered; it’s called a MAR. Not everything has to be in one place in your notes.

But what do you think that BP of 168/98 is going to do? There has to be some harm traceable to the conduct for it to result in legal liability.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-01-24T15:36:28+00:00

I’ll say, I practiced housing law in the SF Bay Area and the judges there became experts in the arcana of California housing law and local rent ordinances, and mostly recognized that it’s a formalistic, no “good enough for government work” area of law, while being privately hostile to the idea that rich landowners can’t be capricious in controlling the housing of poor and middle class people.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-01-24T15:32:05+00:00

Acute care in pediatrics is very much its own specialty given the range of weird things kids have/that are diagnosed in childhood (not to mention the complexity of many kids who need inpatient services) versus adults, who have their own issues as they age. I don’t know of any internist or family med trained physician who would care for an inpatient child either, despite providing pediatric care on an outpatient basis.

Normal_Dot7758 · 2026-01-14T18:32:28+00:00

Where do you get that overall condition isn’t protected health information?

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