The author presents a case of disc escape without strut fracture in a Bjork-Shiley tilting-disc aortic valve. Two years after the patient's death, the surgeon, the valve company, the hospital, and others were sued. The surgeon, a first-year law student, represented himself, pro se, at trial.
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