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Matthew Brackman is a surgeon and author of Med Mal.

What would we do if we weren’t doctors?

Matthew Brackman, MD
Physician
October 30, 2024

I have often wondered where I would be if I had never been accepted to medical school. After all, I got in by the slimmest of margins. I even failed at one application round, finally matriculating at Boston University after an icy post-college winter delivering UPS packages through the snow-covered streets of Cambridge and a depressingly lazy summer punching receipts at the exit to BJ’s Wholesale Club. Now, thirty years …

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What would we do if we weren’t doctors?

A physician’s medical malpractice story: an introduction

Matthew Brackman, MD
Physician
August 1, 2019

An excerpt from Med Mal.

The attorney for the plaintiff leaned forward, rocking precariously at the edge of his chair while I studied him. Comfortable in my leather armchair on the other side of the table I kept up my observation, somewhat amused although mostly unimpressed, as he betrayed his anxiety over and over again …

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