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Even the films have clinical negligence in, finds a UK personal injury worker.
You'd think that, working for a personal injury compensation firm, I'd want to think about other things when I go home at night, but just the other evening I found myself curled up on the sofa with my wife watching a film about clinical negligence. UK law is different, of course, from the American practice involved in Malice, but it's still close enough for her to accuse me of taking work home with me.
It's not like I brought the tape home with me; we're clearing out old videotapes ready to make the move across to a hard-disk recorder, and suddenly there's Nicole Kidman on screen, in a film we must have taped ages ago, making threats to sue over medical negligence.
At the time, she was traumatised over an arrogant doctor removing her ovaries unnecessarily. And it's one of those films where I'm obliged to say "Or was she?", because it's full of twists and turns in the plot that try to keep you guessing about where any true villainy lies. I've never known a UK clinical negligence case turn out this way, which is what I got in trouble for saying, but I could watch Bill Pullman in anything.
It's far from the only film with a medical negligence storyline (let alone the threat of such compensation claims in various soap operas featuring doctors, personal injury lawyers, or both).
A quick search shows up some mysterious films I never heard of at the time - in the case of Malpractice, that's because it's an Australian film that didn't get much screen-time outside its home country, but there are others that seem to be inhabiting some straight-to-video limbo.
But that same search also turns up classics like Paul Newman's The Verdict, where he's a personal injury lawyer redeeming himself and pulling his future back from the brink by representing a comatose woman in a clinical negligence claim. With dialogue by David Mamet, it's a marvellous film that ought to be better known than it seems to be.
There's also the controversial Sicko, by Michael Moore. In this typically polemical documentary, the director finds that the entire American health care system is unfit for purpose, pinioned between lawyers, politicians, drugs companies and suchlike, and finds the systems in Canada and France to be superior. Although World Health Organisation figures may seem to make this an unarguable truth, it has not stopped a large argument blowing up between Moore's supporters and opponents, even in the countries whose medical services he praised.
Oddly enough, it's not that exciting to watch a group of personal injury solicitors go about their work in real time. The reason, I guess, why these films go on being made is that the result of a clinical negligence case in the UK, the US, or anywhere that doctors can make mistakes, can be so important for the sufferer at the centre of the claim.
