Going to Court: How to Become an Effective Expert Witness

[Guest guest]

Going to Court: How to Become an Effective Expert

Witness

6 HR CE course – An “ICE PAC” Fund Raiser

Faculty

Vern Saboe DC,

DACAN, FICC, DABFP, FACO

Attorneys at Law

Ron Sayer, Jeff Thayer,

Jennings, and Best

Locations:

Portland Oct.

31

Eugene Nov.

5

Medford Jan. 14

Salem Feb.

4

Bend Feb.

25

Pendleton Mar.

11

Registration/Fees:

· 1-3 Years in

Practice Free

· 3-5 Years

$95

· 6 Years or

more $149

Course Outline:

·

Proper Documentation

·

Review of OBCE Admin Rules

o Informed

consent

o Clinical justification

– length of curative care issues

o Adequate

chart notes

·

Outcome Assessment Tools – How

to use and score them

·

The “History” key points

& Dr. Saboe’s Sample auto crash intake form

·

Mechanisms of Injury

·

The “Past History”

– Getting all the records & how to handle prior injury

·

Complicating Factors –

Co-morbidity and delayed response to care

·

The “Physical Examination”

o The most

useful objective functional tests/procedures

o Dr.

Saboe’s little “lie detector tests” and how to explain them

in court

·

“Functional Radiology”

of the Cervical Spine

o The

“Penning Method” of analysis

o Alar

ligament injuries

o Other

functional – biomechanical assessments

·

Special Imaging – What to

Order and When

o Functional

MRI of the Cervical Spine

o DMX digital

motion studies

o S.P.E.C.T. scan

o CT

o Thermography

·

Treatment

·

IMEs, DMEs, and Paper Reviews how to

handle them

·

The “Closing Exam” and

how to rate permanent spinal impairment via the 5th edition

·

Going to Court

o How much

should I charge?

o Being called

as a “fact witness” how to handle it

o What if the

patient’s attorney “stiffs” me?

o The

“pre-trial conference”

o Direct

questions

o Using visual

aids to explain injury to the jury

o The

“defense attack” common cross examination questions – how to

handle them

o Using the “independent

plaintiff expert”

o Using “learned

treatises” to impeaching the opposing medical expert

o “Rebuttal

expert witness”

o A review of

Dr. Saboe’s lay analogies to better explain injury to the lay jurors

o Do’s

and don’ts in the courtroom

o Mock trial

Note: “ICE PAC” is the official “Political

Action Committee” registered with the state of Oregon

and whose funds are for the purpose of gaining pro-chiropractic legislation in Salem. Currently I

am very proud to note that more than 250 of your colleagues are currently

monthly contributors to “ICE PAC” please consider joining your

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Session.