It is true. These are legal nurse consultants, working at the limits of their physical capacity, and never complaining about aches, pains or the horrible nausea from chemotherapy. I have known some LNC ‘s for years before they told me they had cancer or Crohn’s or a debilitating orthopedic condition. I am fortunate to be [...]

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 [...]