Lee Taft on Apologies and Medical Malpractice
February 26, 2008
Lee Taft, the former dean of the Harvard Divinity School, realized that ‘after all his years in practice in the field of injury law is that people need meaningful apology from the wrongdoers in order to fully recover from the inflicted wrongs. This realization came to him after he handled a medical malpractice case. A young widow was left with small children and scarce resources because of the negligence of doctors in handing her husband’s illness. This widow was extremely disappointed that none of the doctors that contributed to the agonizing death of her husband came forward with an apology. To her, this was a moral harm, another injury that was added to the malpractice.’
I recommend reading the full article:
Apology Subverted: The Commodification of Apology
Lee Taft
The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 109, No. 5 (Mar., 2000), pp. 1135-1160
doi:10.2307/797485
This article consists of 26 pages
