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 [...]

I work with attorneys.  I know that they provide medical experts with selective records targeting their area of expertise.  Some of this is cost containment and some of it is shaping the view of the expert. This practice of selective omission and inclusion does not work for me as a legal nurse consultant. I want everything. An expert witness works within a narrow window and [...]