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...Vietnam to the Senate. It is impossible to forget that Edwards practiced law. Before he was elected to the Senate in 1998, he spent 20 years as a trial attorney, one of the most successful in the nation. His specialty was medical malpractice, particularly cases involving infants who suffered trauma during delivery. Edwards won judgments totaling more than $152 million in 63 lawsuits, according to the Center for Public Integrity...
...fetal-heart monitor indicates even minor signs of trouble. Today more than one-quarter of U.S. births are by C-section (up from 5% in 1970), though fear of malpractice suits is just one factor in the trend. Meanwhile, medical research has been challenging the conventional wisdom that birth trauma was the principal culprit in cerebral palsy. "There seems to be no scientific question that most of that injury [cerebral palsy] occurs prenatally and is not related to the delivery," says Dr. H. David Bruton, whose partner was a defendant in a lawsuit argued by Edwards and who later served...
...were less consistent for stressful events that give rise to a succession of future hardships, such as the death of a spouse or the effects of a natural disaster like an earthquake. Researchers believe that bereavement causes a decline in natural immunity, while a handful of studies suggest the trauma following a disaster may trigger a small immune boost...
...from and being treated for diagnoses of schizoaffective disorder and secondary post traumatic stress disorder. The first is characterized by severe mood swings and depression mixed with schizophrenia-like symptoms. The second refers to mental illness brought on by interactions with or the witnessing of others who experienced great trauma. It is often associated with the horrors of war or abuse...
Grabau also ruled that Pring-Wilson was not suffering from enough mental and physical trauma to inhibit his ability to make voluntary statements to emergency personnel and his friend around the time of his arrest...