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To the Editor: Rarely will a lawyer spell out more honestly, at least in public, the attitude of the legal profession toward medical-malpractice suits than Grad does in his recent review of Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine, by Barry Werth (Nov. 19 issue).¹ Grad justifies the suit described in the book as follows: "[in] our society, there are no remedies available for such cases of catastrophic birth injury other than medical-malpractice actions" and "there is no way in which the high cost of caring for an infant for years can be met without relying on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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