AMA GUIDES I: FROM BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE
- The California’s Workers’ Compensation Crisis and The Story of SB 899
- The Adoption of the AMA Guides
- The AMA Guides
- Principles: The 13 Greatest Hits of the Guides
- Ratings: DRE, Range of Motion, and Nerve
- Cervical Spine—DRE
- Lumbar Spine—DRE
- Plugging the Whole Person Impairment into the PD Rating Schedule
- Combined Cervical and Lumbar
- Add-on for Pain
- Shoulder--Range of Motion
- Wrist--Range of Motion
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Nerve ratings
- ABUSES: Sleep Disorder, Sexual Dysfunction, White Blood Cell
- Report Review: We review actual reports to see if the AMA rating is correct
How to Get a Doctor to Give You a Correct Rating under the AMA Guides
Psych Cases and 5 Tools for Handling them
AMA GUIDES II: FROM INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED
Review of Principles: The 13 Greatest Hits of the AMA Guides
AMA Guides Rating
Lower Extremity
Spine--Range of Motion
When to Use Range of Motion rating versus DRE
Accessory Validity Test
Corticospinal
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Fibromyalgia
Cardiac (including Hypertension)
Pulmonary
Hand
Hearing
Traumatic Brain Injury
ABUSES: Sleep Disorder, Sexual Dysfunction, White Blood Cell
Report Review: We review actual reports to see if the AMA rating is correct
How to Get a Doctor to Give You a Correct Rating
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HOW TO DEPOSE a DOCTOR UNDER the AMA GUIDES,
HOW TO DEFEND WAGE LOSS CASES, and
HOW TO WIN in APPORTIONMENT
(WITH ALL the MEDICINE and SCIENCE YOU NEED)
- State of the AMA Guides in California: 87% of reports in California are wrong
and overrate Permanent Disability by $10,000 on average
(That's a value of $870,000 per 100 cases!)
- How to Depose a Doctor Under the AMA Guides
- Sample Questions
- Full Demonstration
- How to Defend a Doctor's deposition under the AMA Guides
- Winning Apportionment under Labor Code Sections 4663 and 4664
- The Law of Apportionment after Welcher
- Medicine of Industrial Conditions (includes articles from medical literature)
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy)
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Hearing
- Cardiac
- Pulmonary
- Psychological/Psychiatric
- How to Find Medical Information
- How to find Medical Records, Prior Awards, and Records ofApportionable
Conditions (includes Resource Guide)
- Writing the Doctor on Apportionment (sample letters)
- Deposing a Doctor on Apportionmen (Full Demonstration)
- Handling Wage Loss Cases
- Use of Rehabilitation Experts to establish to Residual Earning Capacity
- Cross-Examination of Rehabilitation Experts (includes Resource Guide)
- Trial of a Wage Loss Case (including sample briefs) (Full Demonstration)
- How to Get a Doctor To Give You a Correct Rating under the AMA Guides
- How to Write the Doctor to Correct a Rating (includes sample letters)
- How to use Outside Sources to Evaluate a Rating (Resource Guide)
- Using the DEU to Get a Corrected Rating
- Deposing the Doctor under the AMA Guides
- Cross-Examination of the Rating Specialist
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