Some Medical Resources

Since I work in the personal injury field, I often run into medical issues that I need to learn more about in order to acurately describe my client's injuries to an adjuster. I also run into medical terminology and abbreviations that I don't know the meaning of. Here are a few resources to help you out of you have the same issues:

Wikipedia ICD-I Codes - Lists ICD-9 codes

Wheeless - Wheeless Textbook of Orthopaedics is a great resource if you need to educate yourself regarding any orthopaedic condition.

MediLexicon - You can do several searches on this page. It includes a medical dictionary, ICD-9 codes search, drug search and an area to lookup medical abbreviations.

JDMD.com - Great medical abbreviation glossary. Has a PDF version that you can save to your computer or printout for a desk reference.

Knee1.com - Complete knee information. Has detailed information about knee conditions and procedures with great diagrams and pictures.

Chiropractic Resource Organization - Commonly used chiropractic diagnosis codes and other resources regarding chiropractic care.

Dorlands - Medical Dictionary on the Merk site that is powered by Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

ADAM - A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia - available as a resource on the Merk site

The Doe Report - The Doe Report has medical/legal art. You can choose from any of their templates, or you can call them and have them make a custom template based on your client's medical records and diagnostic studies. Use the artwork for presentation at trial or to include in a demand package.

Body1 - Body1 is a site for consumers. You can look up information regarding conditions, procedures and diagnistics.

Now for some laughs:

A Whole Page of Lawyer Jokes

If you find any interesting sites, feel free to post comments, or email me directly at melanie@donaldsonlaw.com


Melanie Stuckey
Paralegal
www.donaldsonlaw.com - a Denver Personal Injury Law Firm

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https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php - Colorado Division of Registrations "ALISON" (Automated Licensure Information Online). Contains licensing and disciplinary information for nearly all licenced professionals in Colorado. Use it to find the doctor who has moved twice since your client last saw him or as an investigative tool to find that hard-to-find person. You would be surprised how many people are licensed for something. They are required to keep their address current with DORA, so chances are you can get a good address through this site. If their address is incomplete, call DORA and ask them for the complete information. It is public information, so they will provide it to you, even if it's not listed on their site. I have also used it for asset checks.

http://www.zabasearch.com/ - This site has given me great information in trying to locate someone and to do asset checks. It pulls a lot from property records, so if your subject owns several pieces of property in a given state, you will get the addresses.

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm - directory of official state, county and city governments.

https://www.cbirecordscheck.com/Index.asp - Colorado Bureau of Investigations records check. Searches cost $6.85, but they can provide extremely valuable information about people.

http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/index.html - The National Archives, National Personnel Records Center. Official Employee Folders and Employee Medical Folders of Federal civilian employees are located here. Also has military personnel, health and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century. Finally, they hold all medical treatment records of retirees from all services as well as records for dependent and other persons treated at naval medical facilities. All forms required to request these documents are on the site.

This next link is a link to an article about the Invisible Web. I just started going through it recently and found it very interesting, so I thought I'd share. Obviously, there is a lot of information on the Invisible Web that we should be tapping into whenever possible. Happy reading. http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google

Now for a laugh:
http://www.rinkworks.com/said/courtroom.shtml - funny courtroom quotes

If you find any interesting sites, feel free to post comments, or email me directly at melanie@donaldsonlaw.com.

Melanie Stuckey, Paralegal

http://www.donaldsonlaw.com/ - a Denver Personal Injury Attorney