Suspicious

But suspicions can go too far . . .

I am reminded of some heavy duty trial work that I did in days past when so much was riding on the doctor’s opinions.  This is also true today.  Doctor’s opinions are crucial.  If you can’t get competent doctor’s opinions to back you up you don’t get very far.

Quite often I would be faced with an array of insurance doctors whose job was to find nothing wrong with injured people who were making a claim against the insurance company.  This is not to say that all doctors who testify for insurance companies are dishonest but some of them are.

One doctor in particular . . .  he is no longer with us and it may not be right for me to talk about him since he is gone. . . but I’ll do it anyway.  I had a tough time with this doctor. . . he just wouldn’t admit to anything that would differ from the position of his insurance company.  He was highly suspicious of me and every other trial lawyer who represented the injured plaintiffs.  He truly believed, or convinced himself to believe, that we plaintiff lawyers would coach our clients to testify falsely about their injuries.  Do you know why he believed that? . . .  Because that’s what he would have done . . . it was as simple as that.

The point of telling you about that doctor is to suggest to you that you not be suspicious like he was.  He would be suspicious about everybody else because he didn’t trust himself.
So . . . my suggestion is . . be suspicious but put your trust in your fellow man where it is deserved.  Without trust our lives would be barren. . . we must love and we must trust.