Comment by tboyd47

Your narrative reverses the roles a bit. The lawyers appear as the heroes in this particular story and the villains are all associated with the hospital -- either in the form of people or bureaucratic red tape, depending on how generous you want to be in your analysis.

> The doctors at the hospital were absolutely, unconditionally 100% certain that no other cause than violent shaking could ever explain blood around the brain and at the back of the eyes.

> As a precautionary measure, the hospital followed mandatory reporting statutes and my wife and I temporarily lost custody of David.

> I disturbingly realized that what I had been told at the hospital, namely that subdural and retinal hemorrhage in infants are almost always caused by violent shaking even in the absence of external evidence of trauma, was an assertion based on very weak scientific foundations.

> Thanks to our incredibly effective defense lawyer, we were cleared of all charges within two months, during which we stayed at the hospital 24/7 with David until we sorted out the legal procedures.

> Every case requires years of intense, dedicated efforts by an entire team of specialized lawyers and medical experts, but there are tens of thousands of cases and few experts willing to defend them.

Hospitals are definitely the weak link in this system. Just looking at the way the story is laid out, the solution is more lawyers and fewer, less expansive hospitals.