This best-seller text provides the physician with the information needed to prepare and write top quality independent medical evaluation reports. The authors teach by example and have included complete copies of ten model independent medical evaluation reports.
This book includes chapters on:
Independent Medical Evaluations Legal Contexts The IME Process Evaluation and Report Writing Introduction and Background Information History Physical Examination and Inventories
Diagnoses Causal Relationship Prognosis Maximum Medical Improvement Permanent Impairment Evaluation Work Capacity Management Concluding Statements
Steven Babitsky, Esq., James J. Mangraviti, Esq. and Dr. Chris Brigham.
Attorney Babitsky is the president of SEAK, Inc. He was a personal injury trial attorney for 20 years and is the former managing partner of the firm Kistin, Babitsky, Latimer & Beitman. Mr. Babitsky is the developer of the SEAK IME Network, the editor of The Expert Witness Journal and the seminar leader for the National Expert Witness and Litigation Seminar. He is the co-author of the text How to Excel During Cross-Examination: Techniques for Experts that Work and its companion volume How to Excel During Deposition. Attorney Babitsky is the co-developer and trainer for the "How To Be an Effective Medical Witness" seminar and the screenwriter for the video How to Be an Effective Medical Witness.
James J. Mangraviti, Jr., Esq., is a former trial lawyer with experience in defense and plaintiff personal injury law and insurance law. He currently serves as vice-president and general counsel of SEAK, Inc. Mr. Mangraviti received his BA degree in mathematics summa cum laude from Boston College and his JD degree cum laude from Boston College Law School. His publications include the texts How to Excel During Cross-Examination: Techniques for Experts that Work, How to Excel During Deposition and The Successful Physician Negotiator: How to Get What You Deserve. Attorney Mangraviti was the screenwriter for The Expert Deposition: How to Be an Effective Medical Witness. Mr. Mangraviti has trained hundreds of expert witnesses across the United States and Canada.
Dr. Chris Brigham is an experienced occupational medicine physician who has performed several thousand independent medical evaluations. He is board certified both in occupational medicine and in family practice, and is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians (AADEP). He was one of the founding directors of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. He is Editor-in-Chief of the AMA Guides Newsletter. He has taught over five thousand physicians skills for performing evaluations and how to be more effective in the medical-legal arena.
