It is Friday.  Your phone rings at 3 pm and a desperate attorney needs an expert by Monday morning.  In reality, he identified the need for an expert weeks ago, but the search was postponed in hopes of mediation or a settlement that did not occur. Or.  Your own deadline is looming and you know [...]

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As practicing nurses, we take care of the sick, observe them for declines in condition, and rectify the wrongs done by others as a matter of course.  If we put our patients first on a busy shift, our hands are literally full – too full, sometimes, to pick up a pen and document the care [...]

There is no substitute for laying eyes on a patient. In the quest to cut medical costs with paper reviews, we risk becoming a medical society that spends less time seeing patients in the office and more time looking at them on paper. Just how accurate is a paper review of a patient? Second opinions [...]

You should ask this question at the start of each new attorney-client relationship. I am not referring to the attorney’s area of specialization or their orientation towards defense or plaintiff work. I am speaking about their business and personal preferences, their personality, their desires. Despite having your own (no doubt strong) personality, you must adapt [...]

Legal nurses, like expert witnesses, attorneys and politicians, are only as credible as their public image. While we have faith in the integrity of our friends and fellow professionals, we are not immune to the intentional harm inflicted by others. Most of us unwittingly sow the seeds of our own demise. We engage in light-hearted [...]