While the title of this article is intentionally ironical, the inappropriate use of an injured plaintiff's personal or medical history to confuse, mislead and engender bias in juries is omnipresent in medical malpractice litigation. The uses to which defendants may put a particular personal or medical history are numerous, but each is, by design, targeted to encourage the jury to blame the plaintiff—or the plaintiff's decedent—for their own medical condition, thereby absolving the defendant health care provider of any wrongdoing.