Yeah, the fact that this even made it to the legal system says everything.
Gallstones are normally a gooey crystal. It's cholesterol that has "crystallized" slowly over time. It's one of the reasons why they don't have very good drugs to treat gallstones--any drug would have to "ungrow" that crystal which would take just as long.
There are several questions here, and the legal system is the right place to unpick them. From the top of my head:
- did DH's lentils cause liver injury?
- is that injury permanent or temporary?
- were gallstones misdiagnosed because of the injury inflicted by DH's lentils?
- was unnecessary surgery performed due to misdiagnosis?
- did the doctors misdiagnosing gallstones/performing unnecessary surgery meet the standard of care?
- did the unnecessary surgery cause permanent/temporary harm?
- was the direct harm (temporary liver injury) caused by DH's lentils reasonably foreseeable?
- was the indirect harm (surgery, surgical complications, lifelong side effects) caused by DH's lentils reasonably foreseeable?
A lawsuit was filed. That’s it. Just about anyone can file a law suit alleging just about anything. Now Daily Harvest will have the opportunity to get it tossed. That’s how the system works. That’s how the system is supposed to work.