Regarding Henry

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Folks, we've been here
for a long time now,

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listening to people talk
for months.

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Complicated medical testimony.

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A lot of emotion in this case.

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There is not a person
in this room who isn't sorry

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about what happened
to Mr. Matthews.

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It's a tragedy.

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And when something
like this happens,

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you desperately want
to blame someone, don't you?

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Someone else.

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We understand that.
It's natural.

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But what have we got here?
What's the bottom line?

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It's Mr. Matthews' word

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against the East Shore Hospital,
isn't it?

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That's exactly what it is.

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Now, obviously,
any decent human being

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would want to believe
Mr. Matthews...

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believe that he told the
admitting nurse, Mrs. Valdez

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that he was diabetic.

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It would seem... poetic
that someone else was to blame.

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It would feel right.

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But it wouldn't be fair.

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Let's-let's think for a second.

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Who's being blamed here?

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It's not some, some big bad
hospital corporation.

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We're talking
about human beings.

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Four doctors, five nurses,

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the hospital chief of staff
present at the time.

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All of them there
for no other purpose

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than to try and save
Jonathan Matthews' life.

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Now, this is painful,
and I don't like doing this,

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but if we're all going to do
our jobs,

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I've got to bring this up again.

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Mr. Matthews is an alcoholic.

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In July of 1979,
he tried to commit suicide.

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And, you know, even I was
surprised to learn

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from the plaintiff's
own doctors, ironically,