Articles & Insights
Notes on the medicine, and the law that touches it.
Written for counsel, claims staff, and credentialing committees who want surgical context without academic-only voice.
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TestimonyWhat I will not testify to
Counsel sometimes assumes that an engaged expert will testify to whatever opinion the brief implies. I will not. The opinion I offer under oath is the opinion I have written, in plain…
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Practice NotesLingual nerve injury: what the operative note must show
Lingual nerve injury after third-molar extraction is the diagnosis that arrives by mail, six weeks later, after a patient finally stops hoping the numbness will resolve. By the time counsel is calling,…
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Standards of CareWhen the consent form is the case
In the matter of third-molar extractions, the consent conversation — not the consent form — is what most depositions return to. A signed form proves that a piece of paper existed at…