Description
Instructions:
One of your firm's clients is John Q. Doe and his wife Jane. John was injured in an automobile accident and is currently in a coma. The firm is preparing to sue the driver of the other car if a settlement cannot be reached with the driver's insurance company.
Your supervising attorney hands you medical records he just received and asked you to prepare a medical records summary and a short one page memo addressing any particularly helpful or harmful information you discover in your review.
Use the Excel template for the medical records summary. Note that the MS Word document is not as lengthy or complete as a regular medical record, which is to avoid creating too much “quantity work” for you in the assignment. Your completed Excel template should show the oldest information on the top and be in chronological order from top to bottom, not like the information supplied to you.

Explanation & Answer

Attached.
Surname
1
MEMO
From:
To:
Subject:
Dr. Jones’ detrimental actions during John Doe’s brain surgery
Message:
The above doctor undertook a brain surgery on a patient- John Doe on
1.04.15 after he was brought into the hospital’s emergency. He had been
involved in a car accident and stabilized in the emergency room by Dr.
Kyle, the emergency physician. Knowing well that he was not certified to be
operating on a patient, Dr. Jones undertook the surgery without a hitch but
the patient never recovered and had to undergo a second brain surgery.
According to Dr. Foshager, the second brain surgery done on 1.21.15
showed that the first surgery was not done in the right area of the brain and
the surgeon- Dr. Jones did some damage to John Doe’s brain. That mistake
combined with the trauma caused by the accident damaged the memory
section of the patient’s brain and resulted in his long-term memory loss.
Now, John Doe may have survived the two brain surgeries but he has lost
all the memories of his last fifteen years. This is an inconvenience to the
family and t...
