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ATTORNEY NORMAN YOUNKER: I’m Norm Younker. I am an attorney at the Law Firm of Fabien and Clendenin. I have practiced almost exclusively representing patients and the families of patients that have been injured by medical malpractice.

I grew up in a small community in rural Utah where there were no lawyers in our town. I really did not know what a lawyer was or what a lawyer did except what I had learned on Perry Mason. I went to law school because I had had a couple of teachers in high school that said because I could debate, that I would make a good lawyer. But I did not know what I was getting into. But in law school, there was a class that was taught by a doctor who was also a lawyer and it was on medical malpractice. And I fell in love with the subject matter. I found it very interesting and also very challenging. So when I graduated from law school, I obtained a clerkship with a firm that specialized in defending hospitals, doctors, and healthcare providers, and I worked with them for seven years. After seven years, I realized that there are many cases where patients have legitimate claims. I also realized that the injuries these people had sustained were life changing and that as a defense lawyer, I was trying to prevent them from receiving a fair recovery. I was working to prevent them from improving the quality of their lives and on a certain level that bothered me. And I had an opportunity to represent a client in one contingency case as, you know, representing the injured party. And again, I fell in love with it and decided that was what I wanted to do.