Dovina6 Feb 2006

Or with negligence, malfeasance, or inattention. But what really gets to her is his lying about it. Men are like doctors who must never intimate that they are at fault, lest the confession wind up in court as damning evidence in a black-and-white-morality tale. At most they might say, “I’m sorry that things didn’t go as well as we had hoped.” The tort system makes adversaries of patient and physician, man and woman, and pushes each to offer heavily slanted versions of events.