Risk, Calamity and Apology

Creating a Calamity

It takes a lot to create a calamity in the commercial arena. Transactional attorneys spend a good deal of their time drafting around the calamities of the past. The Supreme Court’s decision in Till v. SCS Credit Corp., 541 U.S. 465 (2004), nevertheless deserves the label. The issue before the Court was straight-forward—how should bankruptcy courts ascertain the appropriate interest rate in a Ch...

Apology

A 'singular calamity'.

WATrISHAM is a small village near the centre of Suffolk. In 1762 an event occurred there which is commemorated by an inscription in the north west corner of the parish church. The tablet reads as follows: Ipswich Journal on 17 April. On 1 May a statement was published in the same paper that 'as the truth of that very melancholy and extraordinary case. .-. is doubted by many' a more complete acc...

An Apology

The Apology

This is the second issue featuring a selected piece from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghese and Richard Selzer, among the best known physician-writers in the United States, have served as workshop leaders, teaching the craft of writing to more than 35 residents. In designing the workshop, Anna B. Reisman, assista...