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Understanding Medical Malpractice
and Maximizing Recovery In All Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Cases
COURSE OUTLINE The course covers all areas listed. If you have an interest in a specific area, please let us know, and we will tailor our seminar accordingly. HOW TO PREPARE, WHO TO SUE, HOW TO DEPOSE The Right Way to Obtain All the Medical Records How to Identify All the Proper Parties X-rays Death to the Locality Rule Differential Diagnosis: How a Doctor Must Think Hospital and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals Which Doctor is THE Doctor? Res Ipsa Loquitur: Does Not Speak for Itself Informed Consent: Whose Standard? Language Barriers to Informed Consent Assault & Battery Negligent Hiring and Negligent Staff Privileges Notice an Evidentiary Deposition of Your Expert, Now Jeopardy to the Defense: A Favorable Expert's Evidentiary Deposition Meet With Your Expert Before the Deposition Educate the Expert Depose the Defendant in His Office Direct On-the-job Observation of the Defendant Doctor's Care Keep the Deposition Open Ended When You Depose the Defendant When You Depose the Defendant's Expert Learned Treatises: Their Use in Fact and by Illusion Always Prepare Your Case for Trial HOW TO MAXIMIZE RECOVERY IN ALL CASES Video Tape Expert Interviews for Settlement Purposes Prior to Litigation Pack the Courtroom The Effectiveness of a "Shadow Jury" Create the Aura of a Big Case: Demonstrative Evidence Sample Questions Day-in-the-Life Film Thermography Proving Psychological Injury Disability and Loss of Earning Potential The Economist: Explaining Expenses and Loss Causes of Action: Not Attorney Stimulation by Court Deadlines Hospital and Physician Professional Corporations = $$$ Discuss Big Money in Your Voir Dire OBSTETRICS The Vagina Sex Obstetrical Office Care Blood Type Incompatibility and RhoGAM Diabetes: Dystocia, Retardation and Cerebral Palsy High Blood Pressure Pre-eclampsia Eclampsia The Post-term (Overripe) Baby The Nonstress and Stress Tests High Risk Deliveries Should Occur at High Risk Centers Fetal Distress: Bradycardia and Loss of Beat-to-Beat Variability Fetal Distress: Meconium Leaking Membranes Progression of Labor Second Stage of Labor: "Is it a Boy or Girl?" Third Stage of Labor: Placental Delivery Retained Placenta Pitocin: The Key to the Insurance Company Vault Episiotomy: Midline, Medial-Lateral Forceps: Outlet, Low, Mid-Pelvic, High The Obstructed Labor: The Other Key to the Insurance Company Vault Obstructed Labor Causing Brain Damage Without "Fetal Distress" Vertex (Head First) Delivery Erb's Palsy: Paralyzed Arm Breech Delivery Prolonged Rupture of Membranes = Risk of Infection Nurses' Duty Apgar Score Brain Damage: Before or During the Delivery? Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) Can Cause Brain Damage After Delivery Prolonged Seizures Can Cause Brain Damage Obtain Certified Complete Records Fetal Monitors Fetal Scalp pH Hospital Procedures and Records Where Was the Patient Just Prior to Midnight? Oxygen and the Newborn The Incompetent Os Pregnancy and Bleeding Premature Labor: Not the Time You Waste on Worthless Cases When is a General Practitioner an Obstetrician Under Law? Experts Recommended for Maximum Recovery in Obstetrical Cases, and the Reasons Why GYNECOLOGY Birth Control Pills Intrauterine Devices Tubal Ligation Intestinal Burns Who Did the Surgery: The Attending Physician or Resident in Training? Ectopic Pregnancy Decidual Reaction Dilation and Curettage (D&C) Abortion Pelvic Infection (P.I.D.) Edometriosis Hysterectomy Oophorectomy Vesico-vaginal Fistula Urinary Incontinence Was the Operation Indicated? Cancer of the Cervix Endometrial Cancer Radiation Therapy Ovarian Cancer Chemotherapy The Gynecologist Must Examine the Entire Patient A Solid Breast Lump Must Be Timely Biopsied PODIATRY Blood Flow Status To the Foot Bunionectomy ORTHOPEDICS Misdiagnosis of a Fracture Tight Cast Compartment Syndrome Use of X-rays To Operate or Not to Operate? Hip Surgery Infection Back Surgery X-ray, Myelogram, CT Scan, MRI Cervical Disc Infection Case Strategy Fracture Healing Thrombophlebitis and Pulmonary Embolism CHIROPRACTIC Neck Manipulation and Stroke Rupturing a Disc Failure to refer to M.D. NEUROSURGERY Brain Surgery: Cancer Carotid Endarterectomy Subdural Hematoma: Clot on the Brain Cerebral Aneurysm Arterio-venous Malformation (AVM) Hydrocephalus Scoliosis: The Use and Abuse of Harrington Rods GENERAL SURGERY Breast Cancer Cancer: How to Win a Delay in Diagnosis or Misdiagnosis of Cancer Case Cancer: Two Dimensional Versus Three Dimensional Growth Thyroid Surgery Appendicitis Gall Bladder Surgery: Cholecystectomy: Incision vs. Laparoscopy Stomach Ulcer Surgery Heartburn and Hiatial Hernia Surgery Hernias Hemorrhoids Cancer Symptoms and Surgery Weight Reduction Surgery Foreign Bodies ANESTHESIOLOGY Oxygen, Oxygen Everywhere: Except. . . Anesthetic Side Effects and Specific Risks Spinal Anesthesia Epidural Anesthesia Local Anesthesia Operative Risk as Seen in the Eyes of the Anesthesiologist EMERGENCY MEDICINE Misdiagnosis of Heart Attack Tendon Lacerations Consultations and Referrals Infection Case Guidelines PEDIATRICS Dehydration Appendicitis Pyloric Stenosis Hirschsprung's Disease Intussusception Pneumonia Meningitis Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever UROLOGY Prostate Surgery Vasectomy Penile Implants: Passive and Active PLASTIC SURGERY Informed Consent Versus Over-Sell Face-Lifts Breast Implants CARDIOLOGY Stress Tests Thallium Scan Cardiac Catheterization with Angiogram Angioplasty A potential individual and class action law suit that affects 100 million Americans CARDIOVASCULAR AND THORACIC SURGERY Cardiac Bypass Surgery Nutrition to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Don't "Stick-em Up" Lung Cancer Vascular Surgery: Bypass Graft Surgery Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Coarctation of the Aorta DERMATOLOGY Malignant Melanoma Squamous Cell Versus Basal Cell Carcinoma Steroid Therapy DENTISTRY Dental Care of the Medically Compromised Patient Informed Consent Problem Areas of Dental Practice Numb Lip: Inferior Alveolar Nerve Injury PSYCHIATRY Tardive Dyskinesia Suicide OPHTHALMOLOGY Cataract Surgery and Lens Implantation Radial Keratotomy RADIOLOGY Radiology: What You See is What You Get X-ray Dyes Cause Some to Die Barium Enema Mammography Radiation Therapy MEDICATIONS Prescription Medication Dangers Pharmacology: Chemical Poisons That Sometimes Do Good Complications from Intravenous (IV) Therapy Infection Fluid Leakage Causing Gangrene Subclavian Vein Catheterization Catheter Embolization Air Embolism Hyperalimentation Intramuscular (IM) Injections: Nerve Damage and Fat Necrosis Narcotic Overdose NURSES Side Rails: The Broken Hip Case Were the Nurses Too Busy? Posey Restraints Smoking and Oxygen = Fire Protecting Psychotic Patients Nursing Supervisor Liability HOSPITALS Hospital Acquired Infections Physicians and Hospital Staff Privileges Hospital Liability for "Independent Practitioners" Safe and Adequate Equipment and Facilities Hospitals Often Contract for Specialized Professional Services Policies to Protect Patients Hospital Duty to Inform Patient of Negligence Negligent Misrepresentation |
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