Physicians Helping Attorneys

Mike & Armin are pleased to have Barbara Furutani, J.D. as a guest on this episode. This episode is a must for attorneys representing injured clients and anyone wanting insight into injury cases. Armin has worked as a Medical/Legal Consultant for Barb and her firm for several years. Barb has practiced Workers Comp, Personal Injury and Social Security law for many years and is well-known and respected for representing Claimants injured on the job. We discuss how Ms. Furutani has worked with Armin over the years helping her to optimize her case results.
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Mike and Armin discuss the training that physicians go through to become Medical/Legal Consultants. Armin has been training physicians to do this specific kind of consulting for attorneys for about 14 years. Armin discusses his one year training program as well as his various conferences and courses for physicians. The episode gives attorneys, physicians and other listeners insight into what’s involved in learning this new field of medicine.
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Armin and Mike discuss a case of Armin’s in which a man was struck in the head by a falling object resulting in the attorney’s client being diagnosed with a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Opposing counsel argued that this man’s pre-existing coronary artery disease, heart attack and subsequent coronary bypass surgery was the cause of his cognitive and other problems. Armin and Mike tease out the medical issues and medical evidence in the case and Mike talks about how our use of verbatim medical records in the report helped to refute & disprove opposing counsel’s theory for the case.
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Get an intimate look at how doctors and attorneys can seamlessly work together. Mike and Armin discuss the many and varied relationships they have with their individual attorney clients. Their goal is to establish mutually beneficial & profitable long-term relationships with attorney clients. Mike and Armin work hard to become part of the attorney’s team, even if only called in on an as needed basis. They talk about blending into each attorney’s routine handling of cases & work flow and discuss how they often are part of the solution to the settlement.
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Mike and Armin welcome their first guest, Dr. David Grundy, to the podcast. David is based in California and discusses a fascinating auto crash case with a couple of really unique twists. First, Dr. Grundy’s report was required just 6 days after he got the case for review. Also, opposing counsel and doctors were trying to prove their theory that the client’s very serious problems from the crash were not accident-related which seemed far-fetched based on the fact pattern and evidence from the medical literature that David beautifully lays out.
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In Part 2 of this topic, Mike and Armin bring up numerous attributes that differentiate a Medical/Legal Consultant from a treating doctor or medical expert in legal cases and how these differences help attorneys and their clients achieve better settlements and get needed medical care for clients. In this Part 2 they discuss the specific language used in reports, ADLs, opinions within a reasonable degree of medical certainty/probability, and much more.
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Mike and Armin discuss what differentiates a Medical/Legal Consultant from a treating doctor or medical expert in legal cases and how these differences help attorneys and their clients achieve better settlements and get needed medical care for clients. In this Part 1, they discuss the Thin Skull rule, and how Medical/Legal Consultants need to understand certain aspects of the law and as well as how attorneys approach cases.
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Mike and Armin discuss one of Armin’s case’s involving a slip and fall. The accident happened at work and so it became a Work Comp case but the issues in the case apply to PI cases as well. Armin refutes the opposing doc’s use of Waddell’s signs and the doc’s opinion that the client’s injuries were not accident-related.
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Mike and Armin take a deep dive into IME observation and Mike interviews Armin concerning a recent IME he observed. They then discuss the IME Rebuttal Report written by Armin that helped the attorney help their client get needed ongoing treatment reinstated after it was denied due to the IME report.
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Mike & Armin shake things up a little and talk about a couple of commonly seen injuries instead of discussing a specific case. Mike discusses common injuries and approaches to shoulder injuries. Armin talks about Temporo-mandibular Joint Disorder which in not an uncommon injury often seen in auto accidents, work-related injuries and other kinds of PI cases. They discuss the concept of functional losses and how that relates providing a comprehensive picture of traumatic injuries.
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Mike discusses a case in which he needed to play medical detective and sort through the medical records leading to his defining specific medical damages which were not previously clear. Mike goes on to discuss how his detective work significantly added value to the case. Armin talks about the history and development of Medical/Legal Consulting as a new field of medicine.
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Armin discusses a “bread & butter” PI case in which a woman developed three serious injuries often seen in car crashes. He goes through the report delivered to the attorney that helped to successfully settle the case for significant case value.  Mike talks about the process we use to interview clients of attorneys which is a critical part of our process in developing a case report.
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In this episode Mike and Armin discuss a report written by Mike in which opposing counsel and opposing doctors stated the client’s injuries were not accident related. Mike was able to diagnose and prove up a diagnosis of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and back up his medical opinions with evidence from the medical literature. Armin then adds a unique personal story of this client’s case paralleling an experience of his own.
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In this episode Mike and Armin discuss a couple of cases in which they advised their attorney clients that there was not significant merit to warrant the pursuit of the case. This episode delves into the fact that our attorney clients want and value our straight-up medical opinions regarding whether we feel the medicine presented in the case would be worth the attorney’s time, effort and money. And, of course, in the injured person’s best interest.
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Mike and Armin discuss an interesting low-speed auto crash case in which Mike helped the attorney prove up the medical theory of traumatic causation despite the low speed of the auto accident. Armin discusses our process of researching medical issues given that we help attorneys answer any and all medical issues in cases that are settled.
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