Perhaps the "insightfulness" you claim to have might have more validity if you had experienced a medical mistake personally...maybe your own child, or your spouse. You think the victims family should be paid for hardships imposed on them and funeral expenses. What does that mean? Maybe a few missed days of work, a few meals? I can hear the medical community cheering now. "Sorry for your loss, here's a $10 voucher to eat in the hospital cafeteria, now go away!" And why is it the victim's family who should bear the responsibility for activism in making sure the same thing does not happen to anyone else? Shouldn't the professional medical people take responsibility for that...shouldn't they be the ones working to prevent these things from happening in the first place?

Aside from your complete lack of sympathy for the poster's loss of his father, you seem to excuse the lying and cover-ups as something the doctors are forced to do...because they might actually be held accountable for their mistakes. You berate the poster for just taking the cash and not making it his mission in life to make sure it does not happen to others. It obviously does not occur to you that these people are suffering from a horrible tragedy and loss. I doubt if they are thinking about future medical reform while they are making funeral arrangements for their loved one. You state that you would do all these things to make changes in the future, but you obviously are not speaking from first-hand experience. If you should ever be so unfortunate as to lose a loved one from malpractice, then why don't you come back and post and tell us how you feel about it and all the things you are doing towards reform then.