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Clinical writing for attorneys who want the medicine before the opinion.

Stroke

Missed Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Case That Turns on the History
Five to twelve percent of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages are missed on first presentation — and most of those misses are made in the history, not the imaging.
July 11, 2025Commentary8 min
Delayed Stroke Diagnosis: Breach, Causation, and the Treatment Window
Most delayed-diagnosis stroke claims rise or fall on two questions — was the patient still treatable, and would treatment have changed the outcome?
January 15, 2024Commentary6 min

Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury in Litigation: Mechanism, Symptom, and the Causation Gap
The distance between a traumatic event and a patient's reported symptoms is rarely direct — and where it frays is where the case is made or lost.
March 4, 2025Commentary8 min

Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury: When the Fight Is About Timing
Most HIBI cases do not turn on whether injury occurred — they turn on when it occurred, whether it was still reversible, and whether the prognosis was declared too soon.
June 22, 2025Commentary9 min

Autoimmune Neurology

Neuroimaging

Neuroimaging in Litigation: What It Shows, What It Does Not Prove
A primer for attorneys working with CT, MRI, and their specialized variants — and a guide to where the interpretation tends to go wrong.
August 19, 2025Primer9 min