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In the highly scrutinised world of medicolegal assessments, the language used by orthopaedic surgeons matters profoundly. Our reports guide legal outcomes, compensation decisions, and appropriate care pathways. At times I read subjective or potentially stigmatising language in orthopaedic reports, for example: "His entire presentation is related to a psychiatric phenomenon far more likely to be a conversion disorder rather than any physical explanation." "There is likely to b

Most orthopaedic surgeons are trained to treat patients. IME work requires a different mindset. What I wish I could tell new IMEs I practise orthopaedics in two different settings: as a treating surgeon and as an Independent Medical Examiner. The training is the same. The mindset is different. As a treating orthopaedic surgeon Your starting point is simple: How do I help this person get better? You take a history, perform an examination, and order investigations. In orthopaed

AI is already in the room. The question is whether it's being used well or not. In this episode of Medico Legal Mastery, host Jess Marshall sat down with Tom Davies - solicitor, medico legal technologist - to examine what artificial intelligence actually looks like in practice, why the trust problem is everything, and what the courts are trying to figure out before the technology runs ahead of them. Why AI is becoming essential in medico-legal practice Here's a thing the indu