Next month, Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis will pull himself away from the dinner table and begin a medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors involved in his near-fatal gastric bypass surgery.
Weis had the surgery in June 2002 while he was still offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots after unsuccessfully battling chronic obesity for years. He has said he weighed about 350 pounds at the time.
Weis alleges in the lawsuit, scheduled for trial Feb. 12, that Massachusetts General Hospital physicians acted negligently and left Weis so close to death that he received the Roman Catholic last rites.
"It was probably the biggest mistake of my life," Weis wrote of the procedure. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who sat at Weis' bedside when the coach was in a coma, is expected to appear as a witness.
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