This title includes comprehensive medical information giving you the necessary knowledge and skills to handle any case involving complex medical issues. It provides the information you need to clearly communicate with opposing counsel, judges, and juries on such important matters as physical injuries, disorders, diseases, and impairments. You'll find up-to-date information on normal anatomy and physiology; birth, growth, and aging; diagnostic procedures; treatment procedures; traumatic injuries; and mental and physical disorders. It also covers diagnosis using imaging, lab tests, biopsies, and other techniques; and treatments involving surgery, drugs, radiation, and other procedures.

Features

• Jargon-free medical/legal/graphic resources that provide the basis needed to understand even complicated medical subjects
• Complete up-to-date information and illustration on the normal anatomy and physiology of the human body
• Covers all medical considerations and complications of a condition or procedure
• Provides critical medical insight on matters that complicate a condition, affect long-term prognosis, or have special significance
• Advice for determining the likelihood that a medical disorder is severe enough to justify a lawsuit

• Jargon-free medical/legal/graphic resources that provide the basis needed to understand even complicated medical subjects
• Complete up-to-date information and illustration on the normal anatomy and physiology of the human body
• Covers all medical considerations and complications of a condition or procedure
• Provides critical medical insight on matters that complicate a condition, affect long-term prognosis, or have special significance
• Advice for determining the likelihood that a medical disorder is severe enough to justify a lawsuit