title: The legal process: a view from the expert witness's hot seat.
abstract: The legal nurse consultant is an important participant in the resolution of personal injury cases. Nurses are serving as liability experts, life care planners, consultants and pain and suffering experts. The pain and suffering expert summarizes and interprets the medical record in the form of a written report. The expert may testify at the time of trial so that the judge and jury will understand what happened to the patient during the course of the medical care. The article incorporates examples of four personal injury cases involving neurologically impaired patients.
authors: Med League Support Services Inc., 55 Britton Road, Suite 500, Stockton, NJ 08559, USA.
authors: P W
authors: PW
authors: Iyer
authors: Beerman and Bogart, Leawood, KS, USA.
authors: J B
authors: JB
authors: Bogart
authors: Beerman and Bogart, Leawood, KS, USA.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Beerman
keywords: Legal nurse consultant; Medical malpractice; Pain and suffering; Personal injury