Thankfully, I have not had any serious medical issues in Alabama yet. We had a situation with my husband where I believe we could have sued and won because of total incompetence, but thankfully it was resolved by another Dr - wasn't out for money but just a solution. My only real surgery was in VA. I had my gall bladder removed and they could not get my oxygen level back up. I was visited by two different anesthesiologists - one who told me that they had put me under too deep and the other who swore he did nothing wrong and I must have had an underlying lung issue. (I didn't ). So a procedure that should have been a day-stay procedure ended up with me in the hospital for a week, until the insurance company demanded that they send me home with oxygen. I didn't sue. For the most part, I think that Drs. are humans and certainly don't want anything to go wrong. They are not gods, but people with specialized learning in an area of medicine which is as much an art as it is a science.