Medical Malpractice

I watched my wife’s gallbladder surgery on my phone because her surgeon said transparency built trust. After she died, the hospital told me the livestream recording was “incomplete,” and the missing minutes became the only thing I could think about.

The night the new triage AI went live, our waiting room looked calmer on the screen and worse in real life. By morning, a man was dead, a child was in the ICU, and my name was stamped across the audit log.

Gary Lindgren went in for a routine filling and came out convinced he was a different person. More irritable. Less patient. Angrier. He blamed the dentist. He blamed the filling. He hired a lawyer. Then his wife took the stand.

I went in for surgery on my left knee. I woke up with a bandage on my right. When I told the nurse something was wrong, she laughed and said I was confused from the anesthesia. I wasn't confused. They'd cut open the wrong leg.