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Dan J. Tennenhouse, MD, JD, FCLM

  Providing assistance in any or all of the following areas:

• Review medical records and other medical documentation and medical evidence.
• Identify additional medical sources for discovery such as other treating clinicians, hospitals or medical records.
• Identify relevant medical-legal issues and provide a sounding board for tactical management of the medical issues.
• Plan how to select, approach, and identify key issues for medical expert witnesses. Dr. Tennenhouse does not testify.
• Prepare for depositions and evaluate deposition testimony of percipient and expert witnesses.
• Prepare for settlement negotiations, trial, arbitration, or mediation.
• Educate the client where indicated on: relevant medical issues, pronunciation of medical terms, future medical care, importance of strict compliance with attorney instructions, etc. This can be especially valuable in family law matters.
• Obtain a thorough client medical history and identify additional issues relevant to the case.
• Customized questionnaires. Dr. Tennenhouse can prepare a thorough and detailed printed medical questionnaire for completion by your client or witness to save you time and assure a more complete, systematic, and detailed medical history. You can use it as attorney work product, or as a guide for your deposition or cross examination of opposing parties or witnesses. The questionnaires are not expensive to customize and prepare.

  Lectures:

• Customized lectures of any desired length for county bar associations, law firms, specialty societies, and other attorney groups – on medical issues often encountered in their law practice.

SHORT RÉSUMÉ FOR ATTORNEY MEDICAL-LEGAL CONSULTATIONS

Dan Tennenhouse, MD, JD, FCLM

• MD: University of Michigan School of Medicine.
• JD: University of California Hastings College of the Law.
• Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine (1973 – 2020). He served two terms on the Board of Governors.
• Medical-Legal Consultant: California law firms (1970 – present). He has extensive experience with: Medical negligence, Family law, Criminal law, and Administrative law actions. Dr. Tennenhouse consults in both plaintiff and defense work
• Clinical Professor of Medicine-Volunteer: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical School (1973 - present). He teaches two different legal medicine lecture courses.
• Teaches two different Legal Medicine lecture courses in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical School (1973 – present).
• Chair, Incident Report Review Committee, University of California San Francisco Medical Center (1982 – 1995).
• Faculty: Professional Boundaries Inc. (PBI) teaching courses in Medical Ethics and Proper Prescribing (2018 – present).
• Staff Physician: Student Health Service – primary care, University of California San Francisco Medical Center (1973 – 1997).
• Author: Attorneys Medical Deskbook published by Thomson-Reuters, now in its 4th edition, 4 volumes, supplemented annually. Includes volume 4, titled: Medical Questionnaires for Parties and Witnesses. Annual supplementation provides Dr. Tennenhouse with current on-line medical information that may be applicable to your cases but won’t be found in textbooks. See publisher’s description: Attorneys Medical Deskbook, 4th ed.
• Author: Dr. Tennenhouse has written in detail on many medical-legal topics, including the following:

Abbreviations and symbols
Alcoholism and liver injury
Anatomical terminology and diagrams
Bones and joints
Checklists of records
Clinical decision making
Clinical laboratory and toxicology tests
Damages
Diagnostic imaging studies
Diagnostic procedures commonly used
Diagnostic tests and procedures
Domestic violence
Drugs with mental effects
Errors and legal pitfalls of medical record keeping
Expert witnesses and consultants
Food-related medical effects and drug interactions
Gathering and preparing medical records for analysis
Great bodily injury in criminal and family law
Head injury
Health professionals and specialties

Herb-related medical effects and drug interactions
Hospitals
Infectious diseases
Managed care and the economics of health care
Medical books and literature
Medical disorders often litigated
Medical negligence
Medical record types and content
Mental disorders in legal actions
Named tests, signs, and rating scales
Nerves and muscles
Non-compliance by patients and clients
Organisms causing infectious diseases
Pain
Pathology findings and autopsy
Poisoning
Prescription drugs and their indications
Substance abuse in witnesses and parties
Tobacco-related injury in litigation
Understanding drugs and drug effects