Writing and Defending Your IME Report

Do you know the 183 techniques to make your IME report more powerful, persuasive, defensible, and valuable?

Physicians who perform IMEs, write IME reports, and defend them at depositions, hearings, or trials, now have a new and invaluable resource that provides them with everything they need to write better and more defensible IME reports.

Writing and Defending Your IME Report: The Comprehensive Guide is the definitive guide to drafting and defending IME reports. You will learn:

• How to make your IME reports more powerful and persuasive
• The 25 tactics opposing counsel will use while cross-examining you and how to defeat each
• Best practices for clearly stating and defending your conclusions
• Damaging extraneous language that should not be included
• Red flag words to avoid
• How to avoid devastating mistakes
• The advantages and hidden pitfalls of word processor report templates
• How to truthfully and artfully answer the most difficult cross-examination questions
• Best practices in documenting the medical records reviewed, history, physical examination, and other components of a quality IME Report
• How to turn the tables on the attorney cross-examining you on your report
• How to write more valuable, more sought after IME reports

This indispensable resource contains ten complete annotated model IME reports, seventeen detailed chapters, each with an ultra-concise "what you need to know" executive summary, hundreds of report and cross-examination examples with suggestions for how the report could have been better drafted, and a detailed index so you can quickly find what you need.

Format: Hardbound, 650 pages
Published: January, 2004