I’ve been preparing for witness statement interviews, and two really complicated ones are booked for tomorrow (done a day early).
One was a gentleman with heart history and multiple hernia issues due to direct trauma in the accident against his colostomy, resulting in three bouts of emergency life saving surgery and some lovely juicy arguments between us and the other side with regards to whether the major hernia can be attributed to the accident – I LOVE this sort of analysis.
And the second is a child who’s mother was attacked by the Defendant after the accident, had as such he’s been left with horrendous nightmares and anxieties, it’s ruined his school performance and he’s having serious social issues with other children. He’s doing much better now but reading his discharge report from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy makes me think how relatively lucky I was with the bullying I had at school – this boy was threatened by another child with the a knife, aged 10. And according to the report, the school had recently sacked their head teacher and was in chaos, so absolutely nothing was done. Needless to say, they’ve moved him to another school and he’s now doing fine.
It’s not nice to read about in terms of the effect on the people personally, but analyzing complicated medical documents is the best bit of my job, and this morning was very rewarding.
(Also, I am going to be such a pub quiz champ if medical terminology comes up, I am getting unbelievably hot on it with all these reports to read!
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