Thirty years ago, I had a newly pregnant patient come into my office. She was only a week late on her period. We did the routine prenatal labs and all was normal. The following week, the patient moved to Seattle, and I didn’t hear back from her until I got a notice 10 months later that I was being sued. Apparently, her baby had some unusual anomalies.
I was being sued because she claimed that I didn’t tell her that her baby could have such unusual anomalies, and if she would have been forewarned, she would have had an abortion. This was the first time I was ever named in a lawsuit. Needless to say, the lawsuit was thrown out, but from that point forward, I was on full guard.
