Mike Levy, Schneider's old pal from his time in LA.

I just wanted the judge to understand that taking him out of the practice of neurosurgery, from my understanding, would not be useful in any way, and would basically detract from his life and from just medical care in general, because he's good at it.

But it wasn't inconsistent with the man he had known.

I think that I have a good understanding of who he is, and in understanding who he is, I can see where the things that really defined who he was and defined his success also are things that would lead to these problems.

The ability to fixate absolutely and completely on a clinical scenario with a patient maximizes your positive results, and it sounds like, uh, taking the personality and the approach that really led to a, a great deal of success during his training just didn't work in a number of scenarios when he was no longer there.

Mike tried to persuade him that that would not be a good idea.

If somebody's pointing a gun at you, do what they tell you to do, and pray for good luck.

But I remember he was really upset about that.

I think we all would be, but people respond differently.

I'd be like, "Oh, I just got mugged," and I would've run the other way.

When John was crossed, he couldn't let it go.

I think that was the pride component, just to let something like that motivate him, and something so unimportant in, uh, the absolute scheme of things.

But there's good and bad to that personality.