Side - Effects

Physicians are careful to warn patients of side effects that medications may cause. One of the side effects of being a trauma surgeon is called court time. I just finished talking to an assistant district attorney about an upcoming trial regarding a patient I treated who had been shot. There is very little activity that is less predictable than jury trials. Even though you may only have to testify for 5 or 10 minutes, you still wind up having to block out days on the calendar just to be available. So I will be trying to reschedule things for the next several weeks. First rule = try to move everything up as much as possble. Till next time. JTE.