Relying upon their wives for financial survival of the family is an emasculating experience. Those men, whose income was based upon one or concurrent manual labor positions, now remain at home, attending doctor visits and going to various therapies. They saw themselves as robust fellows, using their hands in good, honest labor. They will tell [...]

Everyone here probably knows about LinkedIn, is on LinkedIn, or thinking about joining. It's very easy to do, but not everyone does it well. Here are a few tips from personal experience. To me, groups are the heart and soul of LinkedIn. Joining a group says you are interested in the topic area and gives [...]

Words reflect knowledge and experience, and how you put those words together in a sentence indicates the work product you can provide to an attorney. This is such an important issue that attorneys are constantly learning about the best way to write a brief, develop a line of questioning for depositions, or structure interrogatories to [...]

Would you like to know what it takes to be a legal nurse consultant? The average LNC will be a nurse with a minimum of five, preferably more, years of clinical experience in the hospital/OR/ICU/CCU or nurse case manager arena. This nurse is intelligent, competent, independent, confident, and willing to try something new despite misgivings. [...]

Who could question any MD’s intellectual ability to review a medical record? But physicians do not think like nurses. In hospitals, they assess medical conditions; listen to the observations of support personnel, order the care they believe is appropriate, and move on to the next patient. If all errors arose from the wrong order or a misdiagnosis, [...]

A nurse’s comment on last week’s blog prompted this week’s content. She asked me how an attorney could be impressed by her writing style if she had never submitted a report for his review. The reality is that others form opinions of us with the first contact that occurs, whether that is through verbal or [...]