Now I will be the first to tell you that the right to file a lawsuit for alleged wrongs is part of what keeps civil society in check. But then there is a limit …
The local legal newspaper Southeast Texas Record reports that a lady sued a Beaumont doctor, alleging that the doctor’s rudeness caused her to have a heart attack in his office.
Now I have to say that, providing the doctor is a competent one, one might think a doctor’s office wouldn’t be the worst place to have a heart attack. I mean it definitely beats having the big one in a doctor’s office than, say, washing windows on the 92nd floor of a high rise.
It turns out that the plaintiff previously sued an attorney claiming “he verbally assaulted her with sarcasm,” according to the Record. Hmm. I thought that was just the nature of attorneys. She also sued President George “Gee Dubya” W. Bush and numerous housing officials alleging she might be forced into homelessness because of purported mismanagement at the Beaumont Housing Authority.
The story indicates the plaintiff also suffered “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” (heavy on the cruel and unusual punishment) because the doctor would not complete a handicapped accessibility form for her to use on the local transit system.
In addition to unspecified monetary damages sought in The Case of the (allegedly) Discourteous Doc, the plaintiff demands the physician go through psychoanalysis. Talk about your cruel and unusual punishment!