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Folks, we've been herefor a long time now,
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listening to people talkfor 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 personin this room who isn't sorry
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about what happenedto Mr. Matthews.
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It's a tragedy.
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And when somethinglike this happens,
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you desperately wantto 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 believeMr. Matthews...
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believe that he told theadmitting nurse, Mrs. Valdez
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that he was diabetic.
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It would seem... poeticthat 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 badhospital corporation.
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We're talkingabout human beings.
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Four doctors, five nurses,
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the hospital chief of staffpresent at the time.
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All of them therefor no other purpose
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than to try and saveJonathan 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 doour 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 wassurprised to learn
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from the plaintiff'sown doctors, ironically,
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