Bro during my intership I called a couple students into my office to say hey, you made a mistake, this is rife with typos, you didn't even fill out this section, and they took it so badly. I was shocked. We were only a couple years apart in age but seriously they acted like they had a limp whenever you asked anyone to do anything.

A standout was when a patient's BMI was recorded as 6,000 (obviously imopossible) and we all had a good chuckle about it and then I asked them to go find a a nurse to fix it because we didn't know how to/didn't have access on our end, and they gave me shocked pikachu faces. Like okay, you can't correct that yourselves, what can you do...crickets. They pushed back so hard against anything I told them to do. It was my first experience managing people and they were acting like I was weird and bad and wrong for trying to tell them to do normal hospital stuff. So then I feel like the bad guy

Oh sorry I kinda went off on my own tangent but I'm glad you have people looking out for you. We had to file and file and file and kept bouncing to different courts and going to the 7th circuit etc and it was crazy how much work they put in to try to block it. Imagine if they just gave you benefits straight away, since they definitely wasted more money with the denials and appeals. What a wonderful world. I really hope you're doing well (clearly I'm not the terminology guy)

I'm not a lawyer, path diverged, but it was both hilarious and devastating what went on in that office. I'd turn in initial briefs (my job way back then was to read through all their medical notes and then turn them into something readable for the law types) and it was just like "this guy has needed a new wheelchair for 2 fuckin years, assholes," and then I'd find the specs of the different wheelchairs that would be more suitable, and then my lovely old boss would call me into the office and say "hey, that's not how we word things, let's have you go over my edits" and we'd trade back and forth until my vitriol married his professionalism.

A scathing legal brief is so exciting to read. You're on the edge of your seat like it's a final match in [insert your preferred sport] like GET EM!" Good times.

I hope you're doing okay, message me if you want to vent about the SSDI process or anything! I'm not in it now tho

You are talking about lawyers? Nice and decent? Wow.

I could be a performer, I'm nimble

It's more about the barring and the official censure. A couple grand doesn't mean much A judicial beatdown is professionally damaging.

And since it's federal court, being barred from that courtroom is a real blow. It's not like they can just focus on the next city or county over.