SERVICES

Consulting in:

1. Witness Coaching/Preparation for Deposition and Trial Testimony
2. Distressed Doctor Evaluation, Support and Rehabilitation
3. Risk Management for Healthcare Professionals and Healthcare Systems
4. Patient Safety
5. Captive Development and Professional Liability Insurance
6. Claims Management, Case Review, Medical Legal Strategy Development
7. Database Development and Management of Risk, Claims and Professional Liability Information.

Pre-deposition and pre-trial counseling of your physician, nursing, and extender staff - Dr. Schultz will work with your doctor and medical support staff defendants and defense team to help enhance the defendant's performance at deposition and/or trial. We will review the case, help in medical strategy formulation, discuss deposition/trial testimony skills and pitfalls, address areas of weakness, and have the defendant practice testimony delivery.

My first and foremost role is to help the insured understand litigation from a doctor’s and plaintiff’s perspective. I attempt to help the insured deal with the emotional baggage he/she brings to the litigation which invariably prevents them from becoming a good witness. They often start out as a liability for the defense; my job is to teach them how to become an asset for the defense. I have instant credibility with the healthcare insureds. They trust me and realize I have no hidden agendas. I can also be very frank with them while defense counsel remains neutral. In other words, I can be the “bad cop” without any loss of credibility.

I must emphasize that I consider myself a medical-legal strategist in addition to a witness coach. I’m very case oriented and often help the attorney develop the defense strategy, recommend experts, etc. I frequently will find defenses that everyone has failed to discover including all the experts. I look at these cases from a different perspective. I’m not only interested in standard of care and causation. I search to find anything that can help defend the case. Then, once there is a coherent, believable, accurate understanding of the issues and defense positions on them, I’m better able to help the attorney prepare the insured for deposition and/or trial testimony. Therefore, I try to help the insured become the best possible witness he/she can be.