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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
determine all the issues that could be exploited. An RN or someone
like me, who was
trained to conduct
and write reviews,
would handle the
review. Some of the
items we'd dig into
first:
• discharge summary (we'd pay special attention to
such items as diagnosis, pre-op testing, procedure
Intake personnel at plaintiff firms are
trained to ask leading questions and
to filter out the cases worth investing
time and money in.
notes and post-op monitoring),
• admission assessment,
• narrative nursing notes, and
• labs and diagnostics.
We'd pass that review on to the firm's partners, who decided whether
we'd accept the case. Keep in mind that firms have a very short window
in which to review the medical chart and determine if they want to take
the case. It can cost upward of $200,000 to run a case all the way to trial
— where it can potentially be lost. Most firms don't want to take that
kind of chance right now, but if they feel strongly, they'll go the distance.
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