I’m going to keep this ambiguous as possible for legal reasons. Also I don’t have the immediate leverage to get someone to lose their license but it’s been a dispute in my family that irritates me to no end. 

I had an immediate family member suffer a life-ending injury from a mistake made by a doctor. There is proof of this in writing. The day of the incident someone in my family (who wasn’t the patient) noted the doctor was late, and seemingly stressed so they mentioned to postpone the procedure. Doctor goes ahead with procedure, fuckup happens and now legal case ensues. After the incident it took years to get records of what actually happened, and the hospital was being very tight lipped about everything in the immediate aftermath. 

The same family member who expressed concern to the doctor now keeps saying they don’t want to be vindictive and don’t want this doctor to lose their livelihood. I wholly disagree, as their mistake was clear negligence and cost me and my family someone I loved and will never get back, when it was a simple procedure that should have gone through with minimal fuckups. My deceased family member had a good chance of increased life expectancy after the procedure. I don’t want to entertain the chance they can destroy someone’s life and family like this again. The person who disagrees with me is the front of the legal case, and refuses my opinion entirely, under the guise of “good catholic faith” 

AITA for wanting justice or being too “vindictive” about what happened? 