How can patients without million dollar injuries find justice? Defense firms, presumably billing the deep pockets of insurance companies hourly, can drag a case on and wear down a plaintiff attorney, who is funding the case from his/her own pocket. Having watched these cases play out over years in most cases, it costs at least […]

By Charles A Pilcher, MD Early in my career, a local defense attorney working with my hospital would occasionally ask me to review a case in which another physician client of her firm was the defendant. As Medical Director of Evergreen Hospital Emergency Department, I was comfortable with hospital records, knowing where to look in […]