These are written for attorneys screening or defending lower-extremity matters. They are general education about how these cases are assessed, not legal advice and not an opinion on any particular file.

What a podiatric malpractice case has to prove

Standard of care, departure, causation and damages — and the parts of the record that usually answer each one.

Diabetic foot ulcer to amputation

The clinical chain from neuropathy to limb loss, the six points where these cases most often turn, and the defense arguments that beat them.

Bunion and hammertoe surgery: complication or negligence?

Which forefoot outcomes are recognized complications, which raise a real question, and the one imaging item most often missing from production.

Records to send for a podiatric case review

A production checklist in order of what actually gets used.

Why these are written this way

Each of these is written for counsel rather than for patients, and each is deliberately even-handed. A page that only explains how a case is won is not much use to the lawyer who has to decide whether to take it. Where a fact pattern usually favours the defence, these say so.

None of it is legal advice, and none of it is an opinion about any particular matter. Every case turns on its own record, and the point of a review is to find out what that record actually supports before anyone commits to a theory.

Also on this site

• Michigan podiatry expert witness — what MCL 600.2169 requires of the expert, and where that expert belongs in the pre-suit sequence
• Foot and ankle surgery claims — standard-of-care review of elective and reconstructive surgery
• Foot drop and peroneal nerve injury — positioning, casting, arthroplasty and trauma
• Case types reviewed and fees and engagement, both published in full

Also on this site: affidavit of merit and meritorious defense, ankle injury and ankle surgery claims, and podiatric or orthopedic expert.