“You made me a believer with your thorough and insightful review” – E.W., Asst. US District Attorney
I cannot thank you enough for your analysis and report. It was most helpful in highlighting and clarifying critical issues in this complex case.
Maintaining the Veil of Anonymity
On rare occasion, a new attorney may ask a nurse consultant to meet directly with a patient in case evaluation, and to accept payment for their service directly from the patient. This practice is not recommended for the independent nurse contractor.
American Nurses Outperform Outsourcing
Is offshore outsourcing the future of medical record analysis? I certainly hope not. The purpose of a medical chronology is to isolate critical data for the attorney and his experts. Attorneys need a focused chronology that isolates relevant facts with an explanation of why that fact is important. This allows them to formulate questionnaires and [...]
Hearsay vs. Testimony – by Katy Jones
New legal nurse consultants sometimes confuse the concepts of hearsay and testimony. Some LNCs believe that it's hearsay when patients and families provide a different version of events than the medical records do. However, in Law, that version of events, when given at deposition or trial, is testimony, and it's just as valid as the [...]
Generalized Anxiety Disorder – guest blog – Dr. David Adams, PhD, AABP
Dr. David Adams Anxiety ‘Second to the fear of death, many individuals have a fear of public speaking.' Overcompensating for this fear makes some of our best lecturers, comedians or debaters. Social Anxiety Disorder The fear of eating, talking and other social activities is referred to as a Social Anxiety Disorder or Social Phobia. The [...]
“Alice gets it. You can’t teach that.” – Eric Z
Alice's work is as insightful as it is proficient. She understands how the legal concepts relate to the nursing/medical issue she is analyzing. You can't teach that. You either get it or you don't. Alice gets it. Eric Z., Esq., Philadelphia, PA