Physicians Helping Attorneys

Mike and Armin discuss how they often act as a medical liaison between their attorney clients and treating doctors, other professionals, service & governmental agencies and even occasionally with client families. Armin talks about a case concerning clarifying traumatic causation with a treating doctor and Mike talks clarifying case issues with a physician before choosing the right medical expert witness.
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Mike and Armin each discuss a case in which they were asked to do a Standard of Care Review and give an opinion if there was merit to pursue a medical malpractice case. Both cases had some interesting, complicated and sad medical issues. In both situations both Mike and Armin came to the opinion that the standard of care was met and advised their attorneys not to pursue the case. This helped the clients process what happened, saved the attorney time, money and aggravation and helped the doctors to avoid unwarranted litigation.
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Rear-end auto accidents represent one of the most common cases in which our attorney clients are involved. Mike and Armin have consulted on hundreds of these cases. In this episode they discuss some of the medical journal articles they commonly use in reports to give attorneys the medical evidence they need to prove up their medical theories concerning client injuries in these frequent rear-end cases.
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Mike and Armin talk about how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be a missed or “invisible” medical damage in PI or Worker Comp injuries. Mike talks about a case in which PTSD was initially missed as part of the traumatic injuries and Armin discusses a case in which PTSD was complicated by the circumstances surrounding the accident itself.
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Mike and Armin have done hundreds of initial meetings with attorneys wanting to know more about Medical/Legal Consulting. Get some insight into how physicians and attorneys work together as Mike & Armin answer the common questions they are consistently asked in almost every one of these initial meetings.  For instance, why should the I use a Medical/Legal Consultant instead of a medical expert, why spend the money on a Medical Consultant when I don’t have that expense now and much more.

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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