Attorneys Medical Deskbook, 4th, provides the necessary medical background for cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and workers compensation. This tool helps you analyze the use and physical effects of common and experimental drugs, and find and understand medical abbreviations, definitions, and symbols commonly used by health professionals. Makes sense of laboratory and imaging tests used to diagnose specific physical conditions, abnormalities, and dysfunctions. Explains how to organize and interpret medical records for effective and efficient case preparation. Covers test methods, purposes, results, and significance for specific diagnostic tests. Explains how to prepare expert witnesses and consultants.