Step 1: Be Trusting
Trust the doctor. Trust the hospital. Trust that if something went wrong, someone will say sorry.
When nobody does, trust the legal system. Hire a lawyer. Carry your hope like a file folder full of medical reports. Walk into the courthouse like it’s a temple of justice. Smile.
That’s your last smile.
Step 2: Be Patient
Your lawyer will tell you it’s a “strong case”. He’ll ask for ₹1,00,000 upfront — just for “filing work”.
He’ll forget your name three times. You’ll keep reminding him.
The first hearing will get postponed. Then the second. Then he’ll be in another city. Then he’ll send someone else. But be patient — after all, justice takes time. Right?
Right?
Step 3: Be Grateful
Your lawyer will say things like: “At least we got a date!”
You’ll feel stupid for being upset. After all, he’s the expert.
You’ll pay another ₹50,000.
You’ll thank him.
(You’ll hate yourself for it later.)
Step 4: Be Confused
You’ll try to read the opposing party’s affidavit. It’ll sound like legal Sanskrit wrapped in bureaucracy.
You’ll Google every third word. Nothing will make sense.
Your lawyer will say, “Leave that to me”.
You will.
Big mistake.
Step 5: Be Poor
Years will pass. Court trips, medical copies, notarized affidavits, missed work, sleepless nights.
Your savings will shrink. Your hope, smaller still.
Your lawyer will now speak of “compromise”.
Compromise?
With the people who took your loved one?
You’ll consider it. Because what’s left to fight with?
Step 6: Be Disillusioned
You’ll realize your lawyer never understood the case. Never read the hospital’s protocols. Never called a medical expert. He was waiting — for time, or fatigue, or settlement.
You’ll sit outside a courtroom one morning, watching someone else cry into their paperwork. You’ll recognize the look. The beginning of the descent.
You won’t know what to say.
Step 7: Be Forgotten
Eventually, the case will end. Not with justice. Just… with closure of a different kind.
A dusty judgment that says “negligence not conclusively proven”.
A lawyer who says “we tried”.
A hospital that never noticed you.
A person you loved, still gone.
And you, finally silent.
Filed under: Justice Attempted.
Outcome: Emotionally bankrupt. Financially similar.
