Thanks Art. I've actually considered closing the practice I've spent 10 years building over it. I really gave these people so much of myself both professionally and emotionally. They ignored my medical advice repeatedly and would not seek a second opinion when I advised it. Then somehow everything is my fault. They are slandering me. I have trouble sleeping, its shattered my confidence in myself as a veterinarian. I know it happens especially in horse practice. Hell my old boss who was an excellent vet, was sued at least a dozen times. ( won most of them. Settled in two I think).
But I never thought it would happen to me.
Last night I sat in the barn and sobbed incoherently for an hour.
The uncertainty, the lack of control, the feeling of being betrayed, it's all overwhelming.