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"Lawyers' Medical Abbreviations Summary
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Unless you as a lawyer or paralegal know a number of medical abbreviations, you are likely to miss an important point in the medical records. Read this inexpensive four page list of common medical abbreviations. Then put it where you can refer to it easily when reading paper or ESI medical records -- and where you can get to it during a deposition or trial.
Example. Do you know
the following eight
abbreviations that are in the Lawyers' Medical Abbreviations Summary? Many a lawyer has missed the significance of
some of these eight
abbreviations. For example, we've seen plaintiffs mouse trapped into testifying
on cross-examination that they did not drink before driving. When the defense puts into evidence an emergency room
laboratory blood values report that has the little abbreviation ETOH buried
in among the white cell count and other "normal blood workup", the
plaintiff's lawyer often has no idea what ETOH means!
Medical records are replete with abbreviations. Some of them have no real connection with English words, so you need to know them. For example, “c” means “with.” (A lowercase "c" is a shorthand version of the Latin word “cum”) Some doctors interchangeably use a lowercase "c" (even in the same paragraph) with “w/” which also means “with.” There are two other “c” abbreviations that you will see often. “CC” means “chief complaint,” which is the medical examiner’s conclusion of the main reason the patient is seeking medical care. More exactly, "chief complaint" means the primary symptom that a patient states as the reason for seeking medical care. "C/O” means “complains of,” which is a statement of something (not necessarily the main item) the patient told the doctor. ("PCO" is a variation, meaning "patient complains of.") Although there are many more medical abbreviations, this is the concise list for you, as a trial lawyer, to know and have at hand. Summary:
As the trial lawyer, you do not need to read every item of every page of the medical records. But there is a practical - imperative - need to read every page of every scrap of document that goes to the jury, which includes every medical record they see. You must read every page of every medical record the adverse attorney lists as a potential trial exhibit. (They are not listing potential exhibits for the fun of it; there is something in there that you need to be able to counter.) Likewise, you, personally, need to read every page of every medical record exhibit that you are going to put into evidence at the trial. You need to consider how jurors will react to every line of the exhibits. The practical need to read the medical records is the reason you need a quick reference list of medical abbreviations. The fact is, most attorneys do not look up the meaning of medical abbreviations they see in the medical records, even if they are not sure what the abbreviation means. They do not look up the meaning of the abbreviation used by the doctor or nurse for one simple reason: They do not have a handy, quick, list of the common medical abbreviations found in medical records used in bodily injury litigation. But that doesn't have to be you! Here is more great news -- -> You get immediate access to download Lawyers' Medical Abbreviations Summary, in PDF format, right to your computer, immediately. If you are getting ready for a trial tomorrow, buy Lawyers' Medical Abbreviations Summary and put it in your notebook five minutes from now. 
We deliver electronically, in PDF form, immediately, as the last part of the automated payment process. Delivered "unlocked", so you can paste it into your word processor if you want. When your credit card is approved, your browser will be sent automatically to a web page where you can "Click to Download", and in seconds you have the form or ebook. It's that easy and fast! All you do after paying is wait for your next browser page to appear automatically, then "Click to Receive." We are selling the Lawyers' Medical Abbreviations Summary until midnight of , for only $4. Click the "Buy Now" button to get the Lawyers' Medical Abbreviations Summary, Now! Copyrighted 2003 to
10/31/2008, Leonard
Bucklin.
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