Dr. Gustin has had extensive experience over the last twenty years as a case reviewer and expert witness. During that period, as Medical Director of a nationwide medical-legal organization, he has personally evaluated and analyzed thousands of civil and criminal medical-legal cases for both plaintiff and defendant. He is able to provide an insightful and detailed unbiased analysis of cases ranging from the simplest outpatient cases to the most complex hospital and community-based cases. Attorneys who have worked with Dr. Gustin have praised his extensive analytic and communication skills, and praised his effectiveness when testifying in depositions and court. His unique qualifications including board-certification in Emergency Medicine and Forensic Medicine, Advanced degrees in Biochemistry and Metabolism, Toxicology, Epidemiology and Public Health, and second residency training in Preventive Medicine enable him to analyze complex cases that could otherwise require several experts from different specialties to evaluate. Those same qualifications, along with excellent presentation skills, ensure substantial credibility with opposing counsel and jurors. Evaluations of cases he found meritorious have been proven correct by litigation outcome more than 90% of the time.
Dr. Gustin is available as a medical expert to assist potential litigants evaluate all cases related to his areas of expertise. He is also available as a medical record reviewer to perform initial detailed case screenings for merit in any medical specialty area and in toxicology for a reasonable cost-effective flat fee.
Areas of Expertise include:
- Medical Forensics
- Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
- Emergency Medical Ambulance Services
- Trauma
- Medical Toxicology and Poisoning
- Public Health (Outbreak disease)
- Sports Medicine
- Flight, Travel and Wilderness Medicine
- Substance Abuse and Addiction Medicine
- Nutritional Diseases (Diet and Disease)
- Legal Medicine (Standard of Care, Evidence-Based Causation)
- Mechanisms and Forces of Injury (criminal cases)
Here are some services Dr. Gustin can provide to ensure that you have the expert evaluation and support critical to the success of your case.
1. CASE SCREENING: Flat rate screening of all medical legal cases, criminal or civil, for merit, create and sign affidavits of merit in states requiring affidavits, and provide case strategic planning. He is qualified to do this in any medical specialty area because of his extensive cross-specialty training and experience in Emergency Medicine and because of his experience personally evaluating thousands of cases over a 20 year period as Medical Director of a nationwide medical legal organization.
2. AFFIDAVITS OF MERIT
3. MEDICAL EXPERT: Review cases as a potential testifying medical expert in his fields of expertise: Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Forensic Medicine, Addiction, Poisoning and Substance Abuse, Public Health, Travel and Wilderness Medicine, Nutrition, and Pharmaceutical Medicine.
4. PREPARE ATTORNEYS with regard to the examination of medical experts and medical defendants.
5. LITERATURE REVIEWS upon request.
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