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The doctor’s daughter

Posted by Ron Coleman on January 8, 2009

Courthouse corridorHer father was not just a saint, but a doctor.  Not just a doctor, but a surgeon.

A heart surgeon.

And yes, a saint.  A humble heart surgeon.  We talked about him here, remember?

No son in law can match that.  And yet she said this, did Jane, a graduate of a better law school herself, a Jewish daughter of a Jewish heart surgeon saint, and it’s what I keep in my locket, or engraved on the inside of my pocket watch, or what have you — here’s what it was she said:

No matter what anyone says, at the end of the day you litigators are the surgeons.  Whatever everyone else is doing as a lawyer, getting up there and trying a case — that’s life-and-death surgery.

It is.  And I’m scrubbing.

Next week… the gas.

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