Medical Evidence

Description

Professional Medical Illustrations – Twenty-Three Cents Each!

Illustrate and understand medical issues and be able to support your claims with medically-accurate illustrations. These are not the simple line drawings usually found in law books. The extraordinary detail in each illustration will allow you to handle medical topics with confidence and authority. All illustrations are labeled and supported by textual discussion.

When litigating difficult-to-explain medical issues, pictures are worth a lot more than a thousand words. Unfortunately, medically-accurate illustrations can cost hundreds of dollars each.

Medical Evidence is a low-cost alternative. R. John Naranja, Jr., J.D., M.D. gives you over 400 professional medical illustrations and photographs in print and via Digital Access.  This heavily-illustrated clinical atlas covers 15 anatomical systems and case studies covering 26 injuries like the following:

• Whiplash from Rear-ender
• Lumbar Herniation Caused by Lifting
• Facial Laceration, Cervical Trauma from Construction Accident
• Multiple Leg Fractures from Bicycle-Auto Accident
• Child Forearm Amputation by Railcar
• Brain Injury by Small-caliber Bullet
• ACL Rupture from Pedestrian-Skateboarder Collision
• Missed Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
• Lung Cancer and Asbestosis from Asbestos Exposure
• Death Due to Massive Chest Trauma
• Ingestion of a Caustic Substance
• Brachial Plexus Injury During Delivery

Medical issues can be extraordinarily difficult to present intelligently and persuasively, especially when deposing or examining medical experts. Here is affordable help. This book-and-Digital Access package provides:

• Anatomy in plain English
• Case studies of common injuries
• Questions and answers for experts
• Sources of additional information

Medical Evidence contains a 4-color image gallery containing over 400 labeled, high-resolution, medically-accurate illustrations designed to be enlarged and used as courtroom exhibits. Use the digital versions to:

• Prepare customized settlement or brief exhibits
• Assist in depositions, meetings with medical experts, or settlement conferences
• Mount enlarged illustrations as demonstrative evidence
• Provide your artist a money-saving head start on customized illustrations

Medical Evidence pays for itself several times over the first time you print one of its professional-quality illustrations.

REVISION 12 HIGHLIGHTS

This new edition of Medical Evidence overflows with new text and practical litigation tools to help you litigate injury cases more effectively and efficiently. The highlights include:

GOVERNING PRINCIPLES: EFFECTIVE USE OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE

• Impairment Ratings: Governing Principles; Caveats; Checklist
• Presenting Medical Evidence / Proving Damages
  •  Effective Use of Medical Literature Evidence, with Checklist
  • Expert Testimony, with Checklist: Elements of Medical Expert Disclosure
  • Defense Perspective Medical Review, with Checklist
  • Before/After Evidence: Asymptomatic v. Symptomatic v. Minimally Symptomatic, with Checklist
  • Mental and Emotional Injuries / Pain and Suffering
    •Pain Classifications, with Checklist
    •DSM Criteria for Psychological Disorders

MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN TBI CASES

• Before/After Evidence
• Criteria to Establish Causation, with Checklist
• Relationship between TBI and psych disorders; sleep disorders (with Checklist); and MS

MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT CASES

• Medical review of five categories of catastrophic injury
• Four factors that make fractures more severe and are likely to result in higher damages
• Where in the medical record to find evidence to evidence your client is not malingering

MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN PREMISES LIABILITY CASES

• Increased Mortality Rate After Slip and Fall/Hip Fracture

MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASES

• Medical Malpractice Pre-Litigation Checklist (version 2)
• Form: Notice of Intent to File Suit
• Form: Plaintiff’s Offer of Proof

EVEN MORE NEW CHARTS, CHECKLISTS AND SAMPLE FORMS, INCLUDING::

• Form: Sample Letter Requesting Expert Narrative Report
• Checklist: Reviewing a DME Curriculum Vitae/Credentials
• Checklist: Basics of Presenting Injuries
• Checklist: Assessing Cognitive Impairment Based on Six Domains of Cognitive Function
• Checklist: Factors in Retrograde Evaluation of Blood Alcohol Level for Dram Shop Cases
• Appendix 26-A_How a Medical Malpractice Case Proceeds to Trial

PLUS, as always, Medical Evidence includes comprehensive collection of more than 400 professional medical illustrations, and so much more!

ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF IMAGES

PART I A CLINICAL ATLAS
CHAPTER 1 ANATOMICAL TERMINOLOGY
CHAPTER 2 ORGANIZATION OF THE BODY
CHAPTER 3 SKELETAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER 4 MUSCULAR SYSTEM
CHAPTER 5 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
CHAPTER 6 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
CHAPTER 7 GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER 8 FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 9 MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 10 MALE AND FEMALE URINARY SYSTEM
CHAPTER 11 CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHAPTER 12 PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHAPTER 13 ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 14 INTEGUMENT
CHAPTER 15 EMBRYOLOGY—DEVELOPMENT AND BIRTH

PART II PERSONAL INJURY CASES
CHAPTER 16 HEAD AND NECK
CHAPTER 17 LIMBS AND LOWER SPINE
CHAPTER 18 THORAX AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
CHAPTER 19 ABDOMEN AND PELVIS
CHAPTER 20 INTEGUMENT
CHAPTER 21 REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

PART III LITIGATION TOOLS
CHAPTER 22 GOVERNING PRINCIPLES: EFFECTIVE USE OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 23 MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY CASES
CHAPTER 24 MAXIMIZING YOUR RECOVERY IN MOTOR VEHICLE CASES
CHAPTER 25 ESTABLISHING LIABILITY AND PROVING INJURY IN PREMISES LIABILITY CASES
CHAPTER 26 LITIGATING MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASES
APPENDIX: GLOSSARY
INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. John Naranja occupies a special niche that few practicing attorneys possess—being both a doctor and a lawyer. The ability to quickly and competently navigate both the medical and legal sides of a case provides an advantage that few attorneys can offer.

After obtaining his medical degree at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and completing an orthopedic residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Naranja served as an officer and orthopedic surgeon in the United States Air Force. He received his honorable discharge in 2001. He later developed an active practice that included treating patients who sustained orthopedic trauma, degenerative conditions, occupational impairments and sports-related injuries. Dr. Naranja established himself as an expert through multiple publications related to orthopedic injuries and musculoskeletal conditions.
Dr. Naranja then chose to pursue the practice of law. He obtained his law degree at Northeastern University, where he excelled and won multiple law school competitions. He then joined the Diller Law firm to further his passion to help those who have become injured.

Dr. Naranja also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine Law School, teaching medical malpractice; and as an assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.