Political Quotes

“people will have other thoughts on medical malpractice legislation as they come to the floor, as they cast their vote. But for me, I want to make this a day to remember a wonderful woman by the name of Billie Robinson. I have handled medical malpractice cases. I want to talk about this one. I have talked about her before. I want to talk about her again. I could talk about other cases, but nothing has been so fixed in my mind, as I prepared for today, as Billie Robinson. I really didn't know Billie Robinson when she had all of her faculties; I only knew her after she had this surgery. Billie Robinson came from my hometown of Searchlight. She was like some other people in Searchlight, she had basically no education. She was a hard worker. She worked very hard physically. She developed headaches that were difficult for her to describe, but she did her best and went to a series of physicians. Every physician she went to told her she drank too much and she should lay off the booze and she would be better. She ultimately went to her fifth or sixth doctor, and the doctor decided maybe he should look and see what is inside her head and ordered some x rays and other diagnostic tests and found she had a tremendously large tumor in her head causing these blinding headaches. Her activities, her actions were not a result of alcoholism; they were the result of her head having a tumor causing her these horrible headaches. And yes, she did drink.…”