GENERAL ADVICE – April 2019 Educating The Experts I have written previously on how lawyers should educate their experts on the types of reports they need, the questions that should be answered, the issues that should be avoided and the … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – MARCH 2019 New Kids On The Block I find both national and international politics fascinating. Not that I’ve ever been tempted to put my toe in that murky water but trends, persuasions and emerging difficulties can be … Read More
CASE VIGNETTES – MARCH 2019 Temporal Links Are Not Always Important I saw a chap this morning. He is 72 years of age and gave a history of having fallen from a tram in Melbourne in July last year. The … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – MARCH 2019 Complaints To AHPRA And The Medical Board Of Australia I recently received notification from the Office of the Health Ombudsman in Queensland that I had been the subject of a compliant. The complainant had been … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – FEBRUARY 2019 CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS AND SEXUAL BOUNDARIES Whilst clinical examinations form a vital part of any orthopaedic assessment of a patient’s malady, examinations of an intimate nature are very rarely required. The definition of an intimate examination … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – FEBRUARY 2019 Staying Calm Under Enemy Fire Whilst Orthopaedic Surgeons are usually comfortable within the operating theatre environment, that same equilibrium does not extend to the Court room. Delivering evidence in chief is usually straightforward. The cross-examination phase … Read More
CASE VIGNETTES – FEBRUARY 2019 Who Would You Get To Do Your Hip Replacement? Lawyers typically know which fellow practitioners are good and those who are not. Whether the need is for a commercial litigator, a mediator, a criminal lawyer … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – JANUARY 2019 DOES A SECOND JOINT SUFFER BY FAVOURING A FIRST JOINT? I regularly see patients who have an injured hip, knee, elbow or shoulder who subsequently complain of an injury involving the contralateral joint (the same … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – JANUARY 2019 PRE-EXISTENT ABNORMALITIES CAN BE MADE WORSE A 25 year old male cyclist was dislodged from his bike whilst riding out towards the Brisbane Airport. He landed awkwardly and sustained a dislocation of his right patella. … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – JANUARY 2019 SAME WORDS BUT VERY DIFFERENT CONNOTATIONS I recently saw a middle-aged male patient who had fallen from a height of some 900mm (about 3’) from the bottom step of a dump truck at a coal … Read More