Key Services
Every medical record tells a story. My job is to uncover the facts that matter.
As a relentless fact-finder and dogged researcher, I examine the medical record and the evidence surrounding it for the facts that matter. Illegible handwriting, missing documents, backdated entries, disorganized files, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and implausible patient status reports can obscure the medical story. My job is to identify what is supported, what is missing, and what warrants further investigation.
Medical Record and Case Analysis
- Case merit screening: Perform an objective evaluation of medical records, facts, and patient medical history to assess whether they support the plaintiff’s claims.
- Medical record review: Identify potential deviations from the standard of care, inconsistencies, omissions, late entries, potential alterations, informed-consent errors, and other anomalies and forensic clues.
- Medical timelines and delay analysis: Clarify complex episodes of care and key decision points.
- Medical research and literature review: Research peer-reviewed literature, guidelines, medical association materials, and evolving standards of care.
- Facility evaluation: Assess whether patient care was delivered in accordance with facility policies and procedures, equipment and device safety protocols, and accreditation guidelines.
- Case analysis and synthesis: Identify potential standard-of-care, regulatory, and facility-compliance issues, and flag causation factors for review by counsel and appropriately qualified experts.
Litigation Support
- Scope of claims analysis: Identify unauthorized treatment, substituted procedures, informed-consent errors, scope-of-procedure issues, and additional medical professionals or entities whose roles may warrant counsel’s analysis of medical-battery or responsible-party issues.
- Evidence collection: Identify missing records and evidence that may strengthen plaintiff’s claims, such as facility and equipment records, policies and procedures; historical encounters outside the episode of care; medical personnel training and certifications; and physician-patient correspondence.
- Pretrial and trial support: Assist counsel with the content needed for subpoenas, motions, interrogatories, evidentiary exhibits, and deposition questions; attend depositions as requested.
- Attorney education: Explain terminology, diagnostic tests, clinical and surgical procedures, and healthcare operations.
- Expert witnesses: Brief and identify expert and consulting witnesses.
Report Preparation
Produce clear, attorney-ready written deliverables in a format matched to the engagement, such as:
- Case merit analysis: Summarize the medical facts, evidentiary strengths and weaknesses, and open questions relevant to counsel’s evaluation of the potential claim.
- Initial litigation evaluation: Assist counsel in developing ILEs addressing the medical merits, evidentiary strengths and weaknesses, causation, damages, and other issues identified by counsel.
- Plaintiff claims: Prepare a comprehensive report summarizing timelines, responsible parties, potential departures from expected care, other errors and omissions, and factors that may have contributed to the patient’s claimed injuries.
- Medical board complaint: If warranted, identify key facts and issues to include in a medical board complaint.
Representative Engagements
The following anonymized examples illustrate how my work has helped counsel clarify the medical story, identify missing or inconsistent evidence, and determine what additional investigation may be warranted.
Identified informed-consent errors that led counsel to evaluate an additional medical-battery claim.
Reconstructed a delay chronology across nursing notes, orders, imaging, and communications.
Explained how surgical errors could have contributed to the claimed injuries.
Identified potential deviations from facility policies and procedures and accreditation guidelines.
Identified additional medical professionals whose roles warranted counsel’s consideration as potential named defendants.
Flagged copied, amended, and internally inconsistent documentation that obscured the sequence of events and potential causative factors.
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Whether you’re evaluating a potential case or simply exploring whether we’re a good fit, I’d welcome the opportunity to talk.
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