Did you guys hear the one about the doctor, the obstetrician, and gynecologist who saved the life of a potential juror in his own medical malpractice trial? This is 2018, a dude named James Lilja, an OBGYN who practices in San Jose, California. He's on trial for malpractice. A patient has accused him of

negligent treatment. Everyone's gathered in an Oakland courtroom for jury selection, and a potential

juror has a heart attack. A potential juror collapses, wax his head on the way down, is now

crumbled on the ground unconscious, No pulse, not breathing. And James

rushes to this guy's aid and administers CPR and shocks the dude with a defibrillator.

And at least when the paramedics show up to take the poor guy to the hospital, this guy's got a pulse

again. James saves the dude's life in front of God and everybody.

And the judge immediately declares a mistrial, saying that this whole potential jury pool,

their admiration and positive bias toward James is now incurable.

The judge dismisses all jurors, sets a new court date. James is pissed. James wants

this trial with this jury pool to continue. Naturally, James later says, no good deed goes unpunished.

This story went viral in large part because James Lilja in his previous life used to play drums for the

offspring the Southern California punk rock band The offspring come out and play self-esteem all I want

Why don't you get a job James Lilja got a job he's a fucking doctor he's an OBGYN and a gyne

And a gynecologic oncologist. He's still practicing.

I think that case was eventually dismissed.

He practices in San Jose.

He takes Etna, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Cigna, Medicare, TRicare, and United Healthcare.

I called his office.

I called his office, mostly to double check the pronunciation of his name, but I deliberately called during off hours to get his office away message or whatever, but somebody answered, a human, answered the phone at like 7.30 a.m. California

time, and I went, ah, I panicked and hung up the phone. In essence, I accidentally pranked an OBGYN. I handled that very poorly. I apologize to whoever that was

on the phone. I should say that James Lilja played drums in a very early iteration of the offspring.

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