Legal Nurse Consulting (LNC)

In medical malpractice cases, one of the central issues is whether a healthcare professional breached the standard of care. The “standard of care” refers to the level and type of care that a reasonably competent and skilled healthcare professional (nurse or physician), with a similar background and in a similar medical community, would have provided…

Last month I testified as an expert witness in this unfortunate case involving a patient who was seen in the ED for severe, acute pancreatitis and severe dehydration. His condition was documented as “very unstable.” Although one ED physician documented that the patient should be admitted to the ICU, when she went off shift another physician…