Medical Evidence: Acquisition and Use

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This handbook uses medical records and illustrations, samples of actual testimony, and exhibits to help attorneys solve medical-legal problems in personal injury and health-care cases. Strodel, a personal injury lawyer, presents 13 chapters that discuss how to avoid physician-attorney friction, how to get necessary information from reluctant physicians with minimal resentment, how to write letters that garner vital evidence, what to ask for and how to obtain reports from treating physicians, how to use legal tools to obtain hospital records, and when records may be discoverable. Other topics include how to read the records, plan strategy, handle difficult litigation, and direct and cross examination of expert witnesses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)