Consultant for Defense Attorneys in Clinician’s License or Hospital Cases

Benefits for Attorneys

Benefits for attorneys:

To improve the outcome and better impress your client with your clinical knowledge and with your willingness to seek additional consultation, Dr. Tennenhouse can:

Identify potential violation risks:

  • Recognize medical, ethical, and legal issues that less-experienced consultants could miss. Dr. Tennenhouse has encountered a broad scope of violations and board or hospital disciplinary actions while teaching a large number of licensees in remedial education courses.
  • Review medical records and other evidence efficiently, and recognize subtle documentation errors that could support disciplinary actions or undermine the credibility of the records.
  • Advise you on additional discovery measures that could prepare you for unexpected allegations.

Suggest defense measures:

  • Recommend effective remedial and accountability measures for a clinician to help negotiate a more favorable consent agreement or to reduce the degree of discipline imposed.
  • Identify the most appropriate choices for expert witness testimony, and assist you in developing your direct or cross examinations of expert witnesses.
  • Assist you in increasing your client’s reliance on you for preventing other future violations.

Assist you to better understand and anticipate the behaviors of your client and of the patient/complainant

Your client:

  • Identify both the clinical practice behaviors and the psychological behaviors of your client that could affect their relevant actions or testimony, and suggest ways to address them. Clinician clients are often blind to these behaviors, in denial, or hesitant to disclose them to you out of fear or shame.
  • Assist you in optimal ways to prepare your client and manage your client’s resistance to accepting blame where blame was or could be found.

The patient/complainant:

  • Assist you to recognize disordered behaviors of complainants, their underlying mental health issues, conflicts with their prior clinicians, secondary gain, and other relevant factors that could undermine their credibility.