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The Handbook for Workers Compensation Doctors
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The Handbook for Workers Compensation Doctors |
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It was an interesting, challenging, chaotic, and unsmiling worker's compensation (WC) world I entered in 1971. WC patients were very different from the "textbook" patients I had studied in medical school and managed as a general practitioner. There were no written guidelines for doctors. Insurance companies, attorneys, and WC "referees" (judges) were reluctant to send injured workers to doctors unfamiliar with the system. Fortunately for me, there was a shortage of WC doctors in my local area and referral sources gave me a try. Unfortunately, over the next few years I made so many medical-legal terminology mistakes that referral sources were repeatedly irate. "I'll never send you another patient," they would say. "Alright, but at least tell me what I did wrong." Their criticisms were collected on separate sheets of paper and stacked in a corner. By 1977 that stack was as high as my knee. The time was ripe to write a book on the subject - just for me. Over the next two years every spare moment was spent investigating medical-legal issues. In addition to utilizing the law library, bits and pieces of information were gathered from several judges, attorneys, raters, and claims examiners. In 1979, I had finished writing an 800-page book, titled "Industrial Orthopaedics". This book has subsequently been invaluable in helping me establish and expand upon mental skeletal frameworks for increasingly complex and varied medical-legal issues. Much of that information is herein related. |
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