The close association between law and medicine has endured for a minimum of the last two centuries. Herman Melville’s 1851 literary work, “Moby-Dick,” serves as a metaphorical masterpiece from Massachusetts. It symbolises the perspective shared by numerous physicians, both in the past and today, that medical malpractice litigation is akin to the elusive white whale—deemed malevolent, omnipresent, and seemingly everlasting. The relationship between physicians and lawyers was not necessarily more amicable than it is today, mainly due to the presence of medical malpractice litigation.