The Requirement of Adequacy
“Providing an inadequate warning is no better than providing no warning at all.”
American Law of Products Liability 3d, §33:1.
Ingredients: anxiety, intelligence (especially as it pertains to medical/surgical practicalities), bum knee (left), sixth sense (for how to make others divulge personal information without revealing the same), little recall of high school Spanish, categorical recall for song lyrics from the 1980s, occasional night sweats, lousy self-control (around cheese and men who know less about most things than you but more about one thing: baseball, lawn equipment, infrastructure in developing nations), an openness to dogs and to damaged people (how many palates have you repaired? How many breasts have you formed from belly tissue? How many limbs severed, trauma wounds neatly closed?), Boston accent unshaken despite years of schooling elsewhere (else-wayah), a profound love of Cracker Jack and the shitty prizes at the bottom, of bowling, of being the sole parent to your baby-toddler-kid-teen-young adult son, mild asthma controlled by Ventolin, extreme claustrophobia controlled by not flying (bummer, limiting) or spelunking (you were on call anyway), solid mind, decent soul—if you believe in that kind of thing—a love of pick-up trucks and
