Physicians Helping Attorneys

It’s another Q&A episode! About every 6 months Mike & Armin gather the most interesting questions from listeners. In this episode we answer questions from both attorney and physician listeners including questions about cases, future medical care & costs and other timely topics.

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Mike and Armin discuss back pain caused by trauma with a particular emphasis on how they assist attorney clients to identify and get diagnoses and treatments for clients with traumatic back injuries. And all with an eye to how this can help to increase the negotiated settlement.

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Mike & Armin welcome attorney Chuck McTheny as a guest to discuss a recent case. We’ve worked with Chuck for several years and he graciously agreed to come on the episode and have a free flowing lively discussion of the case from a legal and a medical perspective.

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Mike & Armin discuss one of the most common conditions seen in their cases and that is soft tissue injuries caused by trauma. All too often these injuries are seen by opposing counsel and insurance companies as minor. That can be true, but more often these soft tissue injuries are recognizable damages needing treatment.

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Mike and Armin each discuss a case with interesting twists. Mike goes full on sleuth to help his attorney client find the very best expert possible for a case involving prostate cancer screening. Armin talks about an IME rebuttal in which he needs to rebut the facts of the case.

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Mike and Armin answer questions sent by email & text. This is our third episode of answering listener questions including topics about Medical Summary Reports, Armin’s training program, how do we choose which attorneys with whom we work, can we help with crush injury cases and a few other interesting queries.

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It’s back to basics! Mike and Armin each discuss a recent case. Mike’s case involves a merit question in an obstetrics situation. Armin discusses an IME observation and rebuttal report in a case in which life is stranger than fiction.

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Welcome to our slip and fall injury episode. We realized we were remiss in not yet discussing slip and fall injuries. Mike and Armin each present a case in which serious injuries were sustained in two separate slip and fall cases. There were a few curve balls and challenges in both cases in which we were able to help our attorney clients.

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Mike and Armin first talk about a new service recently added to the many ways Medical-Legal Consultants can help their attorney clients. This is a service Mike developed in working with attorneys helping them maximize their effective use medical experts. Armin also briefly discusses a recent development in the diagnosis of sepsis.

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Mike & Armin talk about a recent medical journal article discussing a new treatment for PTSD.  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the most common psychiatric problems after trauma and often a medical damage in injury cases.  They discuss a high success rate/low side effect treatment called Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

Article link: https://tinyurl.com/4ndfm43y

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This is our first Holiday Special podcast! Mike & Armin welcome three physicians doing Medical/Legal Consulting for a round table discussion. Our panel first discusses some fascinating cases and we also talk about our own experiences of physicians helping attorneys helping people. We each also give the gift our best pop culture suggestion for 2024.

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Mike and Armin take a deep dive into Armin’s training program that helps physicians to master this medical field of Medical/Legal Consulting. This episode should be of interest to physicians as well as attorneys interested in learning how doctors train for this consulting work that helps increase case value.

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Based on positive feedback to a past episode, Armin discusses two more very unusual cases. Both cases fall way out of range of our typical Medical/Legal consultations. One case is a post-mortem psychological autopsy and the other case involves answering an attorney question about possible poor credentialing of a medical professional by a healthcare institution.

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Mike & Armin discuss an interesting Workers Compensation case on which Mike consulted.  Our attorney client called Mike to say he was “stuck” regarding one of the injuries in the case.  After Mike reviewed the IME report in question, he let our attorney client know he disagreed with the medical opinions in the report and helped the attorney find a solution to this issue.

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Mike & Armin go back to basics each discussing an auto crash case. Mike goes through the Medical Summary Report he wrote that the attorney used as part of the settlement demand letter. Armin discusses the IME Rebuttal Report he wrote when opposing counsel questioned the validity of the client’s post-crash injuries.

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We are often asked by attorneys, physicians and even listeners in the general public, “What is the difference between a physician Medical/Legal Consultant and a nurse legal consultant?” Mike and Armin answer the question and explain the critical differences. They have a back and forth conversation sharing their ideas and insights.

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As promised in an episode last May, Mike and Armin answer more questions from our listeners and viewers. We were unable to get through all the questions sent in to us (and most likely will never get through them all on the air!). We answer new questions that we are so grateful our audience has emailed in and questions that we think would be of interest to everyone.

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Mike & Armin talk specifically about how Medical/Legal Consulting can save attorneys time. They each discuss a couple of examples and arrive at the conclusion, "let us save you time by handing the medicine in the case".

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Armin discusses a case that appears to be a “bread & butter” typical rear-end auto crash that turns out to have several challenges to overcome. Armin talks about how each issue was dealt with in his report. Mike discusses an interesting merit review/standard of care case where the client was left with avoidable life-long problems.

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