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Personal Injury:
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Content
on this page is provided by Ashcraft and Gerel, one
of the largest personal injury law firms in the nation with a
practice limited exclusively to representation of the victims of
civil wrongs, or torts. Their lawyers help injured people recover
losses and damages resulting from malpractice, negligence, unsafe
products and work injuries giving rise to workers' compensation
claims.
The Personal Injury Law Library
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Summary of Medical Malpractice Law (Summary of each
state's medical malpractice law, including the principal procedural
provisions and the statute of limitations...Not verified for
accuracy)
Assessing and Evaluating the Malpractice Claim:
Practical Considerations - Article Available Only in PDF Format and
not html
'Lectric Law Library, Medical Malpractice
Cafe Law, Medical Malpractice
Military
Malpractice, Federal Tort Claims Act
The
Federal Tort Claims Act: An Overview
American Academy of
Orthopedic Surgeons Online (check the section titled
Educational Resources Catalog...many videotapes for sale on various
orthopedic topics, including surgical procedures)
ACEP Online, American
College of Emergency Physicians (resources available
on emergency medicine)
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations
Laparoscopic Surgery: A Primer for the Lawyer
Society
of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons - Guidelines,
Statements and Other Publications
Establishing Liability And Damages In Laparoscopic
Cholecystectomy
Medical
Malpractice, Cancer and the Medical Oncologist ('Lectric Law
Library)
Mammography and the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
('Lectric Law Library)
TransMed Network - Breast Diseases - Physicians'
Guidelines
CancerNet - National Cancer Institute - Breast Cancer
Treatment - Health Professionals
Prognostic
Factors For Breast Cancer Survival, A Primer For Lawyers
FDA Mammography Page - Mammography Quality Standards
Act of 1992 (MQSA)
Shoulder Dystocia, Understanding the Cause of
Obstetric Permanent Brachial Plexus Injury: An Engineering
Perspective on Shoulder Dystocia
Article: Diagnosing and Managing Ectopic Pregnancy
Lasik Eye Surgery: US Food and Drug Administration
Surgical Eyes (resource site for
complications of eye surgery)
Guidelines for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection
American College of Surgeons - Statements and
Guidelines
Common
Obstetrical Complications ('Lectric Law Library)
The Pediatric Database (PEDBASE)
(comprehensive alphabetical listing with descriptions of
over 550 childhood illnesses)
Pediatric Infectious
Diseases (bibliography of medical literature citations
for pediatric infectious diseases)
Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine
ARM...Association for Responsible Medicine
RMF's Risk Management Library (resources
for risk management and dealing with the medical malpractice arena
from a clinical perspective)
Malpractice Claims - Risk Management Tips and Topics
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
National Guideline Clearinghouse (U.S.
government site providing a public resource for evidence-based
clinical practice guidelines)
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Assisted Living and
Nursing Care - American Health Care Association (Falls
and Fall Risk Clinical Practice Guideline, Altered Mental States
Clinical Practice Guideline, Dementia Clinical Practice Guideline,
Osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline)
Clinical Geriatrics - Falls and Gait Disturbances
National Center for Elder Abuse (funded
by the U.S. Administration on Aging, the NCEA is a gateway to
resources on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.)
Member of the
Family - National Database of Performance Evaluations of Nursing
Homes
Nursing Home Compare (detailed
information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid
certified nursing home in the USA)
The Guidelines for Chiropractic Quality Assurance and
Practice Parameters (Mercy Guidelines)
AIM, Association of
State Medical Board Executive Directors, DocFinder
(for a limited number of participating states, this
site provides a database of physicians with credentials and
disciplinary actions)
Forbes Online, Article on Investigating Physicians'
Background for Disciplinary Proceedings
Federation of State
Medical Boards - DocInfo (40 year old databank of
115,000 physician disciplinary actions recently opened up to public
access for a small fee)
National Practitioner Data Bank (Yes!
It's the home of the notorious federal data bank of medical
practitioners and their malpractice judgments and settlements...No,
you can't access it...Some good statistics, though)
Public Citizen - Survey of Doctor Disciplinary
Information on State Medical Board Web Sites
DoctorFind
(search for physicians)
DoctorDirectory.Com (comprehensive
directory of physicians listed by geographical location and
specialty...also has an advanced search feature allowing searches by
last name only or as much information as is available)
American Board of Medical
Specialties - Certified Doctor Verification Service
(searchable database of all physicians certified by a
member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties. Mirror
site available here)
SearchPointe - Doctor Search - Background Information
IDEX, Expert Witness Research
(fee/membership based, defense oriented database of
expert witnesses and transcripts...It's expensive, but it's good to
know the opposition's intelligence)
Maryland Board of
Physicians (Site contains a search engine for Maryland
physicians that will produce a license profile on each, including
whether any public disciplinary orders have been entered.)
Malpracticedepositions.Com (Malpractice
depositions available online...also includes expert witness data
bank)
Federal
Anti-Dumping Law
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Compensation Sites: |
Workers' Compensation (article on
workers' compensation laws, in general)
Disability and the Workplace
Federal Workers Compensation Statutes (Federal
Employees' Compensation Act, Black Lung Benefits Act, Longshore and
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act)
FedUp Feds
(advocacy group for Federal Employee Compensation
claimants...Some links to other FECA resources)
National
Association of Federal Injured Workers (another good
advocacy group for injured federal workers...resources and a
newsletter available with instructions for subscribing at the
"Message from the Director" page)
Federal/Postal
Employees' Outreach...Assistance and Talk List (Homepage for
mailing list devoted to Federal Workers' Compensation, EEO and other
federal employee legal problems and issues)
Tables Comparing State Workers' Compensation Laws
(Some tables are in .pdf format, requiring
the Adobe Acrobat reader)
Article:
Understanding and Interpreting Spinal Injuries in Compliance with
the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fifth
Edition, 2001
Independent Medical Examinations
(explanatory article)
RSDSA, Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy Syndrome Association of America (reflex
sympathetic dystrophy resources...includes practice guidelines)
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
(complete information on reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
Typing Injury
FAQ (not a FAQ at all, but a site with articles on
repetitive stress injuries)
Cumulative Trauma Disorders
Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission
Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission
Wisconsin Workers' Compensation Decisions
Hurt On The Job - from FreeAdvice
Dictionary of Occupational Titles, U.S. Department of
Labor
Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Alternative Site
Workers' Compensation, What You Need to Know
(brief article on workers' compensation)
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NLM's (National Library of Medicine's) Databases &
Electronic Information Sources
(tutorial on searching on the National
Library of Medicine's PubMeStep By Step Guide to Searching PubMedd -- the
Medline search engine)
Medline Search at National Library of Medicine
(Pub Med and Internet Grateful Med)
National Library of
Medicine, LocatorPlus (searchable catalog of the
National Library of Medicine's books, journals, and audiovisuals as
well as access points to other medical research tools)
National Library of
Medicine, MedlinePlus (large medical resource site)
Researching Medical Literature On The Web
(article on where and how to do medical research
online)
How to Search for Medical Information
(another excellent article on where and how to do
medical research)
National Health Information Center - Health
Information Resources Database (huge database of
names, real addresses and web addresses of organizations that
provide health information)
The Doe Report: Medical Information, The Internet, and
You (yet another article on medical research on the
internet)
CAPHIS - Consumer & Patient Health Information
Section - Health Web Sites You Can Trust
The Merck
Manual, Seventeenth Edition
The Merck
Manual Home Edition Online
Gray's Anatomy of
the Human Body (the classic text, together with
illustrations and searchable)
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - Illustration Index
(browsable by thumbnails)
Gray's
Anatomy of the Human Body - Subject Index
Visible Human
Server (virtual anatomic construction kit on the web
with 3D anatomic models)
Common Conversion Factors (formulas for
converting grams, cc's, liters, pounds and other measurements)
CPT Codes, Physician Procedures Category, Code Or
Description (Search/Conversion engine for CPT codes or
physician procedures)
ICD-9-CM Codes
(tabular list of disease codes)
ICD-9-CM Code
Search Engine
Another ICD-9 Code Search Engine
AMA
Physician Select...Online Doctor Finder (also provides
information on credentials)
American Board
of Medical Specialties (online verification of board
certification of physicians and search engine for specialists)
Find a Maryland Physician, Maryland Med-Chi Society
Online Medical Dictionary (largest
online medical dictionary of which we are aware)
Complete Home Medical Guide - Diagnostic Tests &
Procedures
MedicineNet - Medical Procedures & Tests Index
Medical Online Glossaries & Resources
(In the site's own words... "The Most Comprehensive
Multilingual Listing of Online Medical Dictionaries on the Internet.
Over 1,260 links to useful & informative medical &
health-related web sites and medical dictionaries in eighteen
languages")
Healthopedia (In the site's own words,
"...a medical and health consumer information resource containing
comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language
from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics.")
MedicineNet Online Medical Dictionary
Simplification Guide to Medical Terms
(glossary of medical terms - University of Michigan
Medical School)
Biotech's Life Science Dictionary
Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms in Nine
European Languages
Medical
Terminology Desk, Alphabetical Glossary of Medical Terminology
(Free access to online medical textbooks. The
emergency medicineEmedicine Online Textbooks text is complete,
but there are also texts in progress on many other subjects)
Medical Textbooks On-Line - Family Practice,
Geriatrics, Infectious Disease, and many others
Virtual ER (emergency medicine resources)
E-Journal Showcase - Free Electronic Journals in
Medicine and Health
Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals
Free Medical Journals.Com
Highwire Press,
Stanford University (163,162 free full-text articles
and 725,290 total articles from various scientific journals)
Periodici Biomedici, Biomedical Journals
(alphabetized index and links to biomedical journals
on the Web)
JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association
The Lancet, Electronic Research Archive
New
England Journal of Medicine (free email subscription
available to receive each issue's table of contents)
UHS Clinical Pathways (collection of
standardized medical approaches to common clinical problems)
Multimedia Medical Reference Library
National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME)
Library (pathology resources - articles, links,
guidelines, cause of death tutorial)
The Virtual Autopsy
Medical
Images and Illustrations (links to medical image
archives)
Surgical
Planning Laboratory-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Radiology
Department (image and movie archive of various parts
of the anatomy, plus numerous papers and presentations on various
topics in imaging and an anatomy browser applet for viewing 3D
models)
Medifocus (Research reports for lawyers
on selected topics in personal injury and medical malpractice
litigation. This is a for pay service.)
Making It Easier to Read Prescriptions
(article from FDA Consumer magazine about proposals
for making it easier to read prescriptions, together with helpful
listing of common abbreviations)
HealthScout
(many helpful articles with the latest news in medical
science on various medical issues)
MedicConsult
(articles and resources on numerous medical
conditions, with pulldown menu on front page)
Virtual Hospital
(articles and resources for the general public and for
the medical profession by the University of Iowa Health Care)
DrKoop.Com
(articles on an assortment of common medical ailments,
named after the bearded, former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop)
Medem - Healthcare Information from the Nations
Medical Societies
NIH - Health Information Index
(information on diseases currently under investigation
by NIH or NIH-supported scientists, major NIH research areas, and
important health-related topics)
Medical
Matrix (large indexed site containing clinical medical
resources. You must register to enter site, but it's free)
Medical Legal Web Directory (large
listing of medical-legal web sites)
MedMark - Medical
Bookmarks (database of web medical resources,
searchable and indexed by specialty)
The
Diseases Database (cross-referenced index of human
disease, medications, symptoms, signs, abnormal investigation
findings etc. This site provides a medical textbook-like index and
search portal.)
Obstetrical
Ultrasound and Prenatal Diagnosis
Article: Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart
Rate During Labor
Fetal
Echocardiography Homepage
The Use of Electronic Fetal Monitoring - National
Electronic Library for Health - Full Text Guideline Collection
(huge collection of citations to articles in the
medical literature on electronic fetal monitoring)
The
Global Regional Anesthesia Website (anesthesia
resources...ugly site, but packed with links)
Interactive Anesthesia Bulletin Board
(post questions and answers on issues in anesthesia)
American Society of Anesthesiologists; Standards,
Guidelines and Statements
Healthfinder
(U.S. Government health site search engine and index)
Bill's Net World (topic index of medical
sites on the Web)
HealthAtoZ, The Search Engine for Health and Medicine
Neurotrauma Law Nexus (Brain and Spinal Cord
Injuries)
The
Complete Neurological Examination
Neuroexam.Com
(Describes itself as: "An interactive online guide to
the neurological examination")
Health Web
Medscape (medical news and medical
resource metasite)
Trauma.Org, Care of the Injured (trauma
resources)
AAST Webnet - The American Association for the Surgery
of Trauma (information regarding all phases of the
care of the trauma patient)
American Trauma
Society
World Wide Wounds (resource for dressing
materials and practical wound management information)
American Heart
Association, Heart and Stroke Resources
Internet Stroke
Center
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
WorldOrtho.com's Electronic Orthopedic Textbook
Spine Universe (large resource site for
back and neck injuries and impairments)
Spine-Health.com
(large resource site for back and neck injuries and
impairments)
Yale
Heart Book
Neurosurgery Online (Official Journal of
the Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
Human
Anatomy On-line
Southern California Orthopedic Institute
(orthopedic resources)
Arthritis
and Glucosamine Information Center (information and
resources on arthritis and glucosamine)
Cancer News on the
Net
Acurian (state-by-state listings of
clinical trials of cutting-edge drugs under investigation both by
pharmaceutical manufacturers and/or academic research facilities)
Martindale's Health Science Guide 2003
Martindale's The Virtual Medical Center
(huge medical resource site)
MedWeb -
Emory University (catalog of biomedical and health
related web sites maintained by the health science library at Emory
University)
NIH's CHID - Combined Health Information Database
(large, searchable bibliographic database produced by
health-related agencies of the Federal Government covering 16 topics
and providing titles, abstracts, and availability information for
health information and health education resources)
BioMedNet
(large directory of medical resources by Reed
Elsevier)
InfoRetrieve (research site ... PubMed,
ArticleFinder, Medline, DocSource, article retrieval and delivery)
MedicineNet (large, searchable medical
resource site)
CWRU School of Medicine, Medical Resources
(Case Western Reserve University)
The Medical Algorithms
Project (over 3,000 medical algorithms available for
download. A medical algorithm is any computation, formula, survey,
or look-up table, useful in healthcare.)
Index to
Algorithms - American Family Physician
OB-GYN.Net
(obstetric and gynecologic resources)
The Archives of Sci.Med.Obgyn (web site
for newsgroup sci.med.obgyn)
U.S. Pharmacopeia
(pharmaceutical resources from The United States
Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.)
Drug Digest
(consumer health and drug information)
Clinical Pharmacology 2000
(An electronic drug reference and drug therapy
management website, requiring registration, but registration is
free)
FDA Drug and Device Product Approvals
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm (Searchable
database of approved and tentatively approved prescription,
over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs, together with all
documentation and materials pertaining to each, including approval
history, gathered together from across FDA's many web pages)
RxList, The
Internet Drug Index
Dr. Bob's Psychopharmacology Tips
Pharma-Lexicon
(search engine for huge index of medical and
pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations and their definitions)
Dr. Bob's Mental Health Links
Walter Reed
Army Medical Center...Medical Links
Burn
Information
Chemical Burns
American Burn
Association
Geriatric Care - Resources on Geriatric Issues
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Department of Justice ADA Homepage
Americans With Disabilities Act
JAN, Job
Accommodation Network, Points of Interest (Excellent
link page featuring disability resources on the Web)
Cornell, Disability Law Materials
ADA and
Disability Information
ADA and Disability Related Resources
ADA
Resources
National Association for Rights Protection and
Advocacy (features an ADA Case of the Month plus other ADA
cases and resources)
Enforcement Guidance: Reasonable Accommodation and
Undue Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act - EEOC
DisabilityInfo.Gov (Created by order of
President Bush as part of the New Freedom Initiative directing all
federal agencies to cooperate in building a comprehensive
interagency Web portal for people with disabilities.)
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| Legal
Resource, Research, and Search Sites: |
Library of Congress - Guide to Law Online (deeply indexed site containing links to Federal and State
law)
Finding Court Opinions on the Web - The National Law
Journal
U.S. Government Documents, Ready Reference Collection
(large collection of government documents available
for download or on-line viewing, Columbia University Library)
American Law Sources
On Line (links to laws of all 50 States)
Instacase (summaries and links to the full text
of the latest court decisions from the Supreme Court, the Third
Circuit, and nine states)
Villanova, State
Court Locator
Maryland Judiciary
Homepage
Chicago-Kent, State
Web Locator (listing of state government sites)
Robert's Rules of Order (official site
to order the book...The rules themselves are not online, but
there is a question and answer forum)
The
Legal List, Law Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere
(massive textual list of law related resources)
Zeno's Forensic Page (large list of legal
resources on the Web)
GSU Meta Index
for US Legal Research
Howard University Law Library, Internet Legal Resources,
Find- it Search
Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
St.
Louis University...Law on the Web (large listing
of law links)
Emory Law Library Reference Desk (contains search
engine)
WashLaw Web, Washburn University School of Law (massive
topical index of legal sites on the Web, with a search engine)
WWW Virtual Law Library - Indiana University School
of Law
'Lectric Law Library
LexisOne (Provided
by the legal research firm, Lexis, this site enables free search
and retrieval of state and federal case law for the past 5 years
as well as legal forms. You must register to obtain the full
text of cases, but registration is free.)
Jury Verdict
Research Using the Internet (Article about resources
for searching for jury verdicts on the internet)
MoreLaw.Com
(Searchable database of jury verdicts and settlements)
An
Essay on the Trial by Jury - by Lysander Spooner (1852)
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| Law
Reviews and Journals: |
Online Directory of Law Reviews
Contents Pages From Law Reviews and Other Scholarly
Journals (Tables of Contents for 750 Law Reviews at
University of Texas, Tarlton Law Library)
University Law Review
Project (full text search engine of law journals on
the internet, plus indexed listing of law reviews by topic)
Legal Journals on the Web (massive
listing of on-line law journals by the University of Southern
California Law Library)
FindLaw Law
Review Search
WashLaw Web, Law Journals (links to law
journals on the Web, with a keyword search engine)
LawResearch.com, Law Journals (links to
law journals on the Web)
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| Legal
Dictionaries and Glossaries: |
Duhaime's Legal Dictionary
Bouviers Law Dictionary
1856 Edition
Black's Law Dictionary (abbreviated
version)
Nolo Press, Everybody's Dictionary
The 'Lectric Law
Library's Legal Lexicon--Terms, Definitions & Explanations
A Layman's Guide to Legal Terms
Law.Com Legal
Dictionary
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Workers' Compensation Law Forum
Personal Injury Law Forum
Medical Malpractice Law Forum
LegalMed Mailing List (list for those in
the legal and medical professions involving all issues of personal
injury litigation)
Just the Law Links, Monthly Newsletter
InSITE (Cornell Law Library, monthly
newsletter containing on- line legal resources...Archived and
searchable at the Web site)
Law Lists Info
Social Security
E-News (monthly email newsletter featuring the latest
developments about Social Security)
LegalMinds
(indexed listing and search engine for law related
mailing lists)
Web
Law Lists and Discussion Groups (sponsored by Washburn
Law School)
LawGuru's Mailing List Subscription Tool
(fill out a form to subscribe to a large number of law
related as well as non-law related mailing lists)
LawTalk
Mailing List (general legal discussion)
The Mining Company, Current Events-Law News Newsletter
(this is a newsletter..not for interactive discussion)
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Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyers.Com
FindLaw's Find A Lawyer - Search Engine
LawyerFinder
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Court Forms,
FindLaw (large
collection of Federal and State Court forms in .pdf format)
US Court Forms
Maryland District Court Forms
D.C.
Superior Court Forms
HIPAA Forms
Forms Room,
'Lectric Law Library
Forms Links,
Washburn University
LawSmart, Legal Documents and Forms
(form search engine included)
Legaldocs - Legal Forms
(printable and downloadable legal documents and legal
forms, some free and some for a fee)
Uncle Sam, Forms From the Feds (links to
sites with downloadable government forms)
Social
Security Forms Online
Legal
Forms Index (general forms, such as powers of attorney,
releases, affidavit, promissory note)
FindForms.Com
(searchable database of legal forms)
Hieros Gamos -
Legal Forms
Free Legal Forms For Lawyers (free legal
forms for corporate, business and securities lawyers)
LexisOne Free Forms (You must register
to obtain the forms, but registration is free.)
Real Estate
Forms (leases, deeds, contracts...some free and some
for a charge)
Legal
Forms USA (another fee based service)
All Law Legal
Forms
FormsGuru.Com
Copyright Law Forms (By using LegalZoom
you can register a copyright at your convenience by answering a few
questions online and sending in a copy of your work. This service
will even file the applications for you with the appropriate
government agency.)
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National Law
Journal Online
Lawyers Weekly
Lawyers Weekly, Virginia Edition
The Daily Record
(Maryland legal and business news)
Court TV Online
The Mining Company, Law News Highlights
ACLU Civil Liberties News Wire
Business Law Today (ABA Business Law
Section magazine)
Bytes In Brief (business and technology
law news)
Law News Network.Com
Documents In The News (University of
Michigan Documents Center, archive of documents at the center of
news events, organized by year, along with a search engine)
Law Street Journal (current legal
news)
Celebrity Court (part of the Law Street
site, it provides legal news involving celebrities, with an
alphabetical index of celebrity names)
NACDL News/Media Index (National Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers, new cases and news of interest
to criminal attorneys)
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Wrongful
Death Law
- Free Legal Information
Wrongful
Death Claim Definition
Wrongful
Death FAQs - by Perenich & Carroll et al.
Wrongful
Death Overview - by FindLaw
Wrongful
Death Lawsuits
Personal
Injury and Wrongful Death: An
Outline of Common Claims Under
California Law
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