Hey, folks, Scott Wingardt here, and this is the M-Crit podcast. Today on the podcast, we're going to discuss a case.

We're going to discuss a case that actually went to malpractice trial in the United States, in Oklahoma, to be specific.

And the place I got this case from is I read a newsletter every week called the Expert Witness Substack.

And the author is anonymous, and I'm actually going to be interviewing him today. We'll leave him anonymous. He wanted to stay anonymous because he doesn't want

his commentary to be looked at by plaintiff's attorneys. And this case was for me infuriating.

And an example of so much that's wrong with the American

medical malpractice landscape. But even if you're outside America, this case will be

intriguing to you because this case, even if you don't get sued for it in an American court,

you could absolutely miss something. And some of the things we discuss in the course of our conversation,

I think will prevent patients from being discharged with pulmonary embolism. And then there's a lot

of nuances I think will be interesting to everyone. So enough blather. Let's get right into it.

So we are joined by the Med Mal reviewer, which obviously is not our guest given name, but he prefers anonymity given the actual waters he's swimming in with the project that's brought him to us.

And maybe I'll let you, Med Mal Reviewer, tell us a little bit about what you put out there and then a little bit about your background as an emergency doc.

And then we can

get started. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. So I publish a newsletter that basically

each week we go through a medical malpractice lawsuit and look at what happened with the lawsuit,

and then it's mostly focused on looking at the expert witness opinions that got used in the actual

lawsuit and then

showing basically where we stand. So I've been working on this project for probably, it's been

about six or seven years now, I think. I love it. You're practicing AD doc, correct? Yep. Yeah, I

practice full time at a level one trauma center in the Midwest.

All right. I'm going to quickly run through the case, but you could see the actual write-up from the Med Mal reviewer on the show notes for this episode, along with the actual HPI, physical exam, ECGs, all of the stuff that actually was put into the case and the actual medical record.

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