Statutes & Stethoscopes | Trial Lessons for Medical Injury Lawyers

About Statutes & Stethoscopes | Trial Lessons for Medical Injury Lawyers

Statutes & Stethoscopes is a medical-legal podcast for plaintiff, defense and insurance attorneys handling medical malpractice, personal injury, nursing home negligence and wrongful death cases. Hosted by Tracy Liberatore, Esq., PA-Emeritus, founder of Med Legal Pro and a former physician assistant who moved into medical expert services and litigation support after graduating from law school. Tracy talks with experienced trial lawyers and with the medical experts they bring into their cases. The lawyers share how they approach medical-legal cases and what they learned the hard way, from litigation loopholes to the medical evidence that decided it. The experts explain the medicine behind those cases from the clinical side.

Publisher

Tracy Liberatore, Esq., PA-Emeritus

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episode

4 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Nov 2026

   Sidebar - You Take the Patient as You Find Them

   Statutes & Stethoscopes: Sidebar - You Take the Patient as You Find Them. Two high fall risk residents on the same unit fall the same way on the same night. One walks away with a bruised hip. The other, ninety one and on an anticoagulant, hits her head and dies four days later. Same fall, same breach, very different harm. In this Sidebar I explain the eggshell rule, where it comes from in Vosburg v. Putney, and how it fits with foreseeability: the type of harm has to be foreseeable, the e...

2. 

   2 Nov 2026

   Sidebar - What You Control (Building Your Expert Practice, Part 2)

   Statutes & Stethoscopes: Sidebar - What You Control (Building Your Expert Practice, Part 2) Last time we talked about why an expert practice doesn't happen overnight. Part 2 is the other half: the parts you can control, and the habits that get experts called back. We cover being easy to reach (and when to hire someone to answer the phone), answering the conflict check fast and honestly, making every deadline, writing a report that holds up, keeping your CV current, getting your name out t...

3. 

   28 Oct 2026

   Sidebar - Close Enough to Count

   Statutes & Stethoscopes: Sidebar - Close Enough to Count. A high fall risk nursing home resident gets up alone because the bed alarm is off. She breaks her hip, has surgery, develops pneumonia and dies eleven days later. Did the nursing home cause her death? The factual chain is only half the question the law asks. In this Sidebar I explain the difference between cause in fact and proximate cause, Pennsylvania's substantial factor test, and why foreseeability sits at the heart of it. We r...

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