MML Articles

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

Children aren't small adults. They process pain differently, recall events differently, communicate differently - and they will see right through you if you're not being straight with them. In this episode of Medico Legal Mastery, host Jess Marshall sat down with Dr Anna Manolopoulos, a Melbourne-based orthopaedic surgeon with a subspecialty in paediatric orthopaedics, to pull apart exactly what makes assessing a child so technically and ethically demanding - and what experie

In medico-legal practice, the clean case is the exception. Single incident, no prior history, clear causation. The rule is complexity: claimants who arrive with years of pre-existing pathology, multiple active claims, and a new incident layered on top of all of it. Establishing a baseline in complex medico-legal assessments Dr Boekel's first move in a multi-cause assessment is to establish a baseline: what the claimant was like before the incident, how much pain medication th

Dr. Daniel Robin is a Melbourne-based orthopaedic surgeon and sub-specialist in complex hip and knee surgery. On the third episode of Medico-Legal Mastery, Dr. Robin addresses the dimension of IME practice that separates competent examiners from truly defensible ones: the clinical discipline to observe without treating, document without judging, and report facts without crossing into opinion. The mindset shift A central challenge for surgeons entering the IME space is the fun

Dr. Stephen Doig is an orthopaedic surgeon with extensive medico-legal experience. On the second episode of Medico-Legal Mastery, Dr. Doig addresses a dimension of medico-legal work often overlooked: the strategic use of language, the establishment of trust and neutrality, and how word choice can fundamentally alter patient outcomes. Establishing independence and building patient trust A central tenet of Dr. Doig's approach is the demonstration of independence from the moment

Dr. Michael Dooley is an orthopaedic surgeon with three decades of medico-legal experience, predominantly practicing at St Vincent's Public Hospital in Melbourne. His extensive background includes 15 years as the orthopaedic surgeon to Port Phillip Prison, providing him with unique insights into patient management across diverse and challenging contexts. On the first episode of Medico-Legal Mastery, Dr. Dooley addresses fundamental issues in medico-legal assessment: the hiera