Ptarmigan Legal RN Consulting

Why use Ptarmigan Legal Nurse Consultants?

We provide honest answers and expert support during the

most complicated times, including those who need assistance

with the medical aspects of:
 

• Medical malpractice*

• Personal injury*

• Long-term care litigation/elder law

• Product liability

• Workers’ compensation

• Risk management

• Life-care planning

• Regulatory compliance

• Forensic/criminal*

• Civil rights

• Employment discrimination

• Medicare set-asides

*Services for persons outside of Colorado

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General Public: Looking for help with Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID)?

If you need someone to talk to who will not judge or sugarcoat the topic of dying, we are here for you. For those looking for information about MAID but are afraid to ask, Ptarmigan Legal Nurses can explain everything. We will make sure that:

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• If you are feeling overwhelmed by all the steps involved, or if your family and friends are not on board with your decision, you will be supported through the process.

• Support is there for you and your family during the entire process, from start to finish – including accompanying you to your appointments and being present on that last day.

 

Medical Providers, Estate Planners, and Elder Law Attorneys: Need assistance with talking to your clients, and their families, about death and dying?

Talking to your clients about death, dying, palliative care, hospice care, and the medical component of a living will is not easy.  Only 13% of med schools, in the US, currently have any kind of curriculum that talks about this. 

• Nobody WANTS to talk about death; in our society death is a negative experience

• There is such a thing as a good death; we will guide your clients through the planning process in a way that honors their wishes, accounts for minimal strife, and protects them from those who would go against their wishes.

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Medical Durable Power of Attorney (MDPOA) all fall under our areas of expertise

• We can train you and your staff in how to talk to your clients about the medical aspects of MDPOAs before it becomes a crisis.

• If you need assistance with introducing these topics when meeting with your clients, Ptarmigan Legal Nurses can initiate these conversations, follow up with each client, and ensure that you are kept in the loop.

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Attorneys: Is there a case?*  *For cases outside of the State of Colorado

Let Ptarmigan Legal Nurse Consultants handle the hundreds of pages of medical records you have to read and create a summary and chronology of the events. We can also:
 

• Review the records, figure out what really happened, and examine whether or not there is a case.

• We will find, vet, and provide all the necessary medical experts.

• Allow us to explain these difficult situations to medically/emotionally unstable or overwhelmed clients and provide expert witnesses specific to your case.

• If you don’t have the time to accompany clients to independent medical exams, Ptarmigan Legal Nurses can do it for you. We will take notes and videotape/summarize those exams.

• Allow us to guide clients through each step of the legal process.

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