Lawyers, what was your “oh crap” moment in court?
I sat in on a personal injury case where the plaintiff had unfortunately broken their leg in an accident and had a doctor on the stand as an expert witness. The woman’s lawyer then begins questioning the doctor about their experience with leg injuries (he was a well-known and highly respected orthopedic surgeon in the area, with many years of experience).
She asks if he’s ever treated a tibula fracture (the bones in your leg are actually called tibia and fibula, yes, that’s fibula with an ‘f,’ not tibula), to which he simply answers, “no.” Then she starts pressing him with even more specific questions about the supposed tibula.
After about 6 to 7 questions, she finally asks, “How did you manage to get a medical license and have been able to practice medicine for all of this time if you’ve never treated a tibula fracture?” She then begins a small rant about how she’s going to go after his medical license and even those that gave it to him, to which he calmly and simply responds, “There is no bone named the tibula.”
The lawyer became absolutely beet red, and everyone else in the room, including the judge, tried their very best not to burst out laughing.
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