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This should be mandatory for any malpractice lawyer
This has been discussed before here. This is a fantastic idea:
Drexel University in Philadelphia is offering a new "mini medical school" for trial lawyers to learn about their clients' conditions.
The program, offered through a partnership between the university's medical and law schools, is sponsored by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel.
The program is designed to help trial attorneys better evaluate potential claims and defenses, and arrives just at the end of a medical-liability debate in Congress that pitted doctor and trial-lawyer associations against each other.
One-day sessions are available on the physiology, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions frequently encountered by trial attorneys.
I wish there were malpractice law courses available to physicians. Both sides can benefit from learning what's on the other side of the fence. (via This Makes Me Sick)
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Kevin, take a look at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/news/press/april06/malpractice.html
which is a recent description of a new mini-law school course at the University of Richmond which is available to physicians.
University of Maryland and almost certainly other law schools do allow non law students to attend courses. It was just such a course (Law and Medicine, then taught by Karen Rothenberg) which enticed me to go back to law school while practicing full time on the faculty at Hopkins. Karen founded the Health Law Program, and is now dean of the Law School.
I recently heard about a WONDERFUL sounding course first taught I believe at U.Conn, based on possibly the best and most balanced book ever written on medical malpractice, DAMAGES by Barry Werth. A description of the course can be found at http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=uconn/ucwps
What is so good about this book, if it hasn't been discussed previously, is that Werth managed to write it from the perspective of all players in a horrendous malpractice case, not favoring any one side over the other. If you read the book with a completely open mind, and are a charitable person, you will have some empathy for everyone involved. I can't recommend the book more highly.
At any rate, in the course based on the book, I heard recently that they brought in some of the actual characters on which the book was based, and allowed students to query them as to the effects the case has had on their lives. It is possible that the course curriculum has been released and that the course is now offered at more than one school. It would be well worth finding out. And I think both doctors and the students and their faculty would benefit from having a mixed audience.
And btw, there is actually a plethora of "medical school for lawyers" courses. And I don't know how balanced most are, but I have my suspicions. The one I attended, taught by an EP, was not "How to understand" but rather "How to Win".
After all, if UNDERSTANDING is what medical malpractice cases are about, we could just sit down and talk to each other about setting things right...?