Medico-Legal Mastery

Doctors are already using AI to process their briefs. Some are using it well. Some are using tools they really shouldn't be. And almost nobody is talking about it openly. In this episode, Jess Marshall sits down with Tom Davies - solicitor and medico legal technologist - to examine what artificial intelligence actually looks like inside a medico legal practice, why the trust problem is the only pr...

Most paediatric IME assessments don't arrive straightforward. They arrive with a child who can't fully articulate what happened, a parent filling in the gaps, records that don't always align, and a developmental picture that changes everything about how you read the presentation. The job isn't just assessing the injury. It's working out what the child can actually tell you, what the adults around...

Most medico-legal cases don't arrive clean. They arrive with decades of GP notes, pre-existing pathology, and a new incident sitting on top of all of it. The job isn't just assessing what happened. It's working out what was already there, what changed, and what the evidence can actually support. Dr Pamela Boekel is a Melbourne-based orthopedic surgeon specialising in shoulder and elbow surgery, wi...

The IME examiner is not there to treat the person sitting across from them. They're there to document what they see, report the facts, and leave the rest to the courts. The moment that line blurs, independence is gone. Mr. Daniel Robin is a Melbourne-based orthopaedic surgeon and sub-specialist in complex hip and knee surgery, trained across leading centres in London, Bristol, and Switzerland. Hos...

The words you choose can change a patient's life. So what's the difference between language that helps and language that harms? Dr. Stephen Doig is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in major trauma with extensive medico-legal experience. Host Jess Marshall asks the questions every medico-legal expert faces: How do you establish trust and neutrality from the moment a patient walks in? What happen...

The MRI and patient testimony don't line up. So what's next? Dr. Michael Dooley is an orthopedic surgeon with 30 years of medico-legal experience. Host Jess Marshall asks the questions every medico-legal expert faces: What do you do when imaging and symptoms don't line up? How much weight do you put on an MRI versus what you see in the room? When is uncertainty acceptable in a report? How do you e...