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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Head injuries or brain damage can occur anywhere - in the workplace, in an MVA, in medical malpractice, toxic torts, a domestic fall, and environmental exposures. Litigated head injuries generally arise from two sources: 1. Accidents a. blunt trauma (fall, violent blow or MVA) b. penetrating trauma (gunshot) 2. Medical causation (stroke) a. ischemic (a [...]
In recent decades, there has been a marked drop in autopsy requests. In the distant past, any death within the first 24 hours of admission triggered an autopsy. Any unexplained death in or out of the hospital; any accidental death with questionable etiology required an autopsy. JCAHO required 20% of hospital deaths to undergo autopsy [...]