Why I Wrote
This Book
I wrote these stories — all of which are true — with the hope that young practitioners and the patients they treat might benefit from them. Some are funny. Some are sad. Some both. I have never seen a doctor sued for performing too many tests — I have seen many sued for failure to diagnose.
All These Stories
Are True.
Some are funny. Some are tragic. A lot are both.
Forty-Two Years.
Two Worlds.
Emergency physician by dawn. Expert witness by dusk. Four decades at the collision point of medicine and the law — the same ER where a young Hemingway once rode ambulances in search of stories.
Doctor at Dawn,
Defendant by Dusk
Stories from the explosive collisions at the intersection of medicine and the law. Pre-publication — subscribe for exclusive content and updates.
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Stan Parman, M.D.
Why I Wrote
This Book
I wrote these stories — all of which are true — with the hope that young practitioners and those who experience the medical world as patients might benefit from them. Some are funny. Some are sad. Some both. All have some component of tragedy.
They all come from my personal experience over forty-two years within the medical and legal systems, working both as a clinician and a medical-legal expert witness. I have never seen a doctor sued for performing too many tests. I have seen many sued for failure to diagnose.
“Stay strong and be tough. These are some of my stories.”
A young Ernest Hemingway, before he became famous, worked as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star in 1917, riding ambulances out of the emergency department of the then-new Kansas City General Hospital in search of unique medical stories. Fifty-five years later, Dr. Parman trained during his early medical school years in that same emergency department, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.
That was inspirational to him. These are some of his stories — from the explosive collisions which occur at the intersection of medicine and the law.
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All These
Stories Are True.
Some are funny. Some are tragic.
A lot are both.
The Twins
"The twins should have died."
The twins should have died. What happened in the next six hours would test every instinct Dr. Parman had built over a career — and lead straight to a courtroom.
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BOOK II — COMING SOONForty-two years.
Two worlds.
Dr. Stanley Parman spent over four decades practicing Family and Emergency Medicine. By virtue of his work as an expert witness in medical-legal cases, he discovered early that doing the right thing and defending it later are not always the same exercise. Over the course of his career, he learned that what happens after the diagnosis—the human reactions, the second-guessing, the legal scrutiny—can be just as defining as the medicine itself. He also became well acquainted with what happens when medicine and the legal world intersect—an arena where hindsight is perfect, narratives are polished, and outcomes are rarely as straightforward as they appear.
“Stay strong and be tough.”— FROM THE PREFACE
Timeline
Doctor at Dawn,
Defendant by Dusk
Stan Parman, M.D.
Stories from the explosive collisions which occur at the intersection of medicine and the law. True cases from forty-two years working as both a clinician and medical-legal expert witness.
"Some of these stories are funny. Some are sad. Some both. All have some component of tragedy."
“A rare inside view of medical decision-making and the vagaries of malpractice litigation. I will be recommending it to every clinician—young and experienced.”
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Every clinician carries cases they'll never forget. If you're a doctor, nurse, or first responder with a story from the explosive intersection of medicine and the law, Dr. Parman wants to hear it — for the conversation, the community, and perhaps a future volume.
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