Apportioning Psychiatric Disability in Workers’ Compensation and Assessing Aggravation in Personal Injury Litigation Whether it is in the area of workers’ compensation or personal injury, the courts have recognized that defendants are only...
MAKING SENSE OF THE MMPI (MMPI’S) Last month I talked about the five sets of data that are used to arrive at conclusions in psych reports and pointed out that psychological testing is just one of those sources of data. This month’s newsletter is...
ADVOCATE April 2009 IssueJournal of Consumers Attorneys Associations for Southern CaliforniaMild Traumatic Brain Injury: Very Real, Very Contentiousby Charles J. Furst, Ph.D. Los Angeles Neuropsychology Group Most of the brain injuries that attorneys and...
A World of Hurt Part IIIIn Workplace Injury System, ILL Will on All Sides – NYT by New York Times, Steven Greenhouse TONAWANDA, N.Y. — The sprawling DuPont plant along the Niagara River here can be a grim place, but less so on the days when the company hands out...
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COMMON FLAWS IN PSYCH REPORTS After spending 24 years reading medical-legal psych reports it is very obvious that most of them contain substantial flaws. Unfortunately, since SB899, AME and Agreed Panel QME reports are usually not reviewed by other...
LITIGATION PROBLEMS WIH THE GAF Statements about an applicant’s level of permanent psychiatric disability rest upon the doctor’s conclusions about their Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF). According to the Schedule for Rating Permanent...
Medical Dispatch Tinnitus is one of the most common clinical conditions in the United States. KeywordsTinnitus;Ringing;Ears;State University of New York at Buffalo;Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic;Christina Stocking;Hearing LossI noticed the sound one evening about...
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MRSA AND THE WORKPLACEOctober 8, 2008 — TriStar Marvin Pietruszka, M.D. — Length 43:50 min. Why are employers, public officials, and the medical community concerned about MRSA? How does this disease affect employees and employers? Can MRSA be confused for diseases...
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