Our medical consultation services can remove much of the administrative burden from the law firm and the attorney. There may be times when the workload fluctuates, and you need to hire additional help without taking on new employees. We are independent contractors who can be hired to do as much or as little work as you need.
Because of our years of experience in the medical and nursing fields, we are intimately familiar with medical records and the nuances of care delivery. Nurses provide most of the care delivered in hospitals.
Below is a list of some (but not all) of the services and work products we can provide.
Our Specialities
We can help in both Civil and Criminal Matters.
Medical Summary Reports
Medical chronologies
Briefcase analysis
Reports
Medical Summary Reports
These reports are the “stock and trade” of the LNC but may not always be necessary in smaller cases or the preliminary stages of discovery. Alternately, If you have volumes of records and the case is headed to trial, mediation, or settlement, this may be a cost-effective option to map out the case, cut it down to size, and condense large amounts of data. Summaries tell the story and provide a thumbnail sketch of case facts and the course of treatment. They can also be helpful in telling a story of pain and suffering.
Medical Chronologies
Medical chronologies provide a “road map” through the case, cutting across locations and providers to create a day-by-day account of what happened and when without added detail. This helps you visualize a complex series of events along a continuum. Events may occur over years, months, or minutes, depending on the case and the issues involved.
Briefcase Analysis
Briefcase analysis – This is a brief report that opines whether the reviewer thinks there is substance to the case. It can help weed out the bad case or the impossible to prove case. In some cases, opinions can be subjective and subject to review by other reviewers. This is where the background of the reviewer becomes important. This is not the same as an expert review.
Services
Medical Literature Research and Writing
We are experienced in citation formatting and the use of medical databases to search for case-specific literature to support or weaken a claim.
Assistance With Medical Expert Location
Our network of nursing and medical providers can link you with the experts you need to establish practice standards and opine on whether standards of care were met.
We will not take a case if we are unfamiliar with the practice area involved. However, we can still help by assisting you to find a reviewer or testifying expert with expertise in your area. Through our professional network, we have access to a variety of medical professionals across a spectrum of medical practice areas.
Medical Transcription and Editing
Medical Proofreading
We have seen books in print with improper usage of terms such as “medical meniscus” vs. “medial meniscus” or “vena cave” vs. “vena cava.” A trained eye will pick this up more readily than a non-medically trained eye. These are small things but important when communicating with medical experts and treaters.
We have spent many years reading, transcribing, and writing in medical files. Medical terms and syntax are second nature to us, and we can make medical prose ring true and accurate.
Medical Records Organization
You’ve located and hired a great medical expert to review your case and opine on specific issues to prove your case. The expert’s fee is $500 per hour. You send the expert a disorganized set of medical records, and they spend time organizing them before they can make sense of them. This can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Do you really want to pay the expert fee to do that? No, you would hire an experienced Legal Nurse Consultant who can take care of this administrative task at a much lower cost and deliver your expert a set of organized and indexed records so they can get right down to work.