Chapter 54

“You were pretty out of it for a while. Reggie and Bert were here. Bert’s malpractice professor, the best in the country according to Jake, has offered to take the case against Central Shore gratis. It seems the professor was outraged when Bert told him what happened.”

“I don’t care about the money.”

“I do. Kitty will want plastic surgery when she gets older to cover the scars and that is generally not covered by insurance. What would have been a small hole turned into four inch scar. She’s always going to be frightened of hospitals. If her first experience was here, it would have been different. This hospital has a culture of caring about their patients. Dr. de Loria sat with me outside in the ICU visitors lounge while you slept and treated me like a human being. He asked about my thesis and told me he wanted his husband, a psychiatrist, to read the dissertation.”