I love technology and all that technology offers us in our legal nurse consulting businesses. I definitely don’t miss sitting in the medical library for hours, manually Bates stamping medical records or having to Xerox® a hard copy of the medical record for a CLNC® subcontractor. No, none of us want those days back. Nor do I need to mention typewriters, bound journal indexes, liquid Wite-Out® and modems.
But one experience I believe many Certified Legal Nurse Consultants and attorneys are missing out on today is the dialogue regarding a case. It’s not enough to send the attorney your report electronically and to conclude your work is done even if you’re confident your report is perfect.
Both you and the attorney will benefit if you discuss your opinions and the report once the attorney has had time to absorb it. When you write the report you have your ideas. When the attorney reads the report she’ll have her own ideas. The real magic happens when you come together and discuss the case. The dialogue reveals new questions and new answers.
Just hitting the send button isn’t enough. The sum of the parts often exceeds the whole. And that sum may be exactly what the attorney needs to ace the case.
I’m Just Sayin’
P.S. Comment and share how you keep the dialogue going with your attorney-clients.
