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RCI MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TOPICS Even months are employer issues; odd months are worker issues. WE'RE ON THE WEB!! Our web site, www.oakes.org/ has all our past newsletters and lots more: CLE
lectures on Chronic Pain Myths and Managing Unruly Case Managers, a journal article about fraud and rehab malpractice
issues, a sample Life Care Plan; and plenty more. We plan to upload more interesting things in 2000, including
journal articles by Dr. Phyllis King and Deborah Lechner on FCEs and more CLEs: Ethics and Standards of Practice
in the Rehabilitation Professions - Case Management and Rehabilitation Counseling, and Vocational Rehabilitation
in Alabama Workers' Compensation. If you're not on the web and you want reprints for a past year, then please mail us $5 per year requested, and
we'll mail you the back issues. We hope 2000 is your best year yet. His Holiness, John Paul II, 2000 a Year of
Jubilee and expects a new springtime for mankind. After worldwide events of the 20th century and, on
a smaller but closer to home scale, personal events of 1999, from his lips to God's ears! Our best wishes for your best year ever in 2000! Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2 - OSHA regulations help save money on medical recordsVol.1 No. 3 - No Alabama statutory authority for medical case managementVol. 1, No. 4 - Announcing Low Tech Engineering Vol. 1, No. 5 - Tips for catastrophic management Vol. 1, No. 6 - First ADA judgment and tips for workplace safety/ADA savings reduction via workplace safety Vol. 1, No. 7 - How to achieve vocational consensus Vol. 1, No. 8 - Neutralizing biased vocational testimony Vol. 1, No. 9 - Neutral vocational panels Vol. 1, No. 10 - Reducing WC costs by workplace safety Vol. 1, No. 11 - Managing the medical case manager Vol. 1, No. 12 - More workers' comp cost Vol. 2, No. 1 - Loss of Earning Capacity Percentages Vol. 2, No. 2 - ADA Update -or- THHEEYY'RRE BAACCKK!! Vol. 2, No. 3 - Loss of Earning Capacity -or- All work is not created equal Vol. 2, No. 4 - Announcing change in OSHA/USDA inspection policy Vol. 2, No. 5 - Managing biased physicians -or- What's up, Doc? Vol. 2, No. 6 - Top Ten Disability Mismanagement Tips -or- Taking the Low Road Vol. 2, No. 7 - Fraudulent FCEs -or- Leaping Tallest Buildings in a Single Bound Vol. 2, No. 8 - Nicotine and Workers' Comp -or- Smoke Gets in Your Benefits Vol. 2, No. 9 - Safety and Workers' Comp -or- Premeditated Carelessness Vol. 2, No. 10 - Inflated Lifecare Plans -or- Stupid Rehab Tricks Vol. 2, No. 11 - Rehabilitation Provider Malpractice -or- All That Rehab Jazz Vol. 2, No. 12 - NONE - (Advanced WC Seminar) Vol. 3, No. 1 - LEC Ratings -or- Figures can lie, Liars can figure Vol. 3, No. 2 - NONE Vol. 3, No. 3 - LEC Statistics -or- ADA, LEC, M-O-U-S-E Vol. 3, No. 4 - Rehabilitation Services Approach -or- Hurt Folks or Malingerers? Vol. 3, No. 5 - Post-1992 LEC-or-All Work is not created equal after 1992, either Vol. 3, No. 6 - Real Job or Bogus? - How to Tell Vol. 3, No. 7 - Fraudulent Training Programs -or- What *Were* You Thinking? Vol. 3, No. 8 - NONE Vol. 3, No. 9 - More on Fraudulent Training Programs -or- Smoking Them Out Vol. 3, No. 10 - Questionable Vocational Billing -or- Well, hey, it's only money! Vol. 3, No. 11 - Vocational Research or Hearsay Nonsense? Vol. 3, No. 12 - Post-Daubert Vocational Evaluations -or- Where's the BEEF??? Vol. 4, No. 1 - Post-Daubert Vocational Evaluations -or- I'm cute, I'm fun, it's 7% Vol. 4, No. 2 - Rehabilitation Malpractice -or- Ethics? What Ethics? Vol. 4, No. 3 - Workers' Comp and Pain Management -or- It hurts even if I don't laugh Vol. 4, No. 4 - Savings in Obtaining Medical Records - update Vol. 4, No. 5 - Real Work or Bogus? - Factors to Consider When Assessing Employment Vol. 4, No. 6 - Avoiding trial humiliations -or- When in doubt, tell the truth #2 (Twain) Vol. 4, No. 7 - The No-Interview Vocational Evaluation-or- Penny-foolish, Pound- foolish Vol. 4, No. 8 - WC Vocational Services -or- Reducing WC Settlements Through Training Vol. 4, No. 9 - WC HMOs -or- Enquiring Minds Want to Know. Vol. 4, No. 10 - LEC ratings or data manipulation? Vol. 4, No. 11 - Chronic pain problems -or- Painful misconceptions Vol. 4, No. 12 - Settling PTDs -or- Well, hey, the taxpayer pays for everything else. . . Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2 - FCE - Art or Science (article by Deborah Lechner, MS, PT) Vol. 5, No. 3 & 4 - Computer-assisted motor vehicle accident reconstruction Vol. 5, No. 5 - Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation -or- WC Deals on Wheels Vol. 5, No. 6 - Prudent Life Care Planning -or- Well, heck, we all may die soon, anyway Vol. 5, No. 7 - Vocational Testing -or- Round Pegs in Square Holes Vol. 5, No. 8 - Managing Unruly Case Managers -or- The Best Defense is a Good Offense Vol. 5, No. 9 - Life Care Planning Gone Awry -or- Preventing Damage to the Damages Vol. 5, No. 10 - Chronic Pain Management -or- Are They Deadbeats or Really Hurt? Vol. 5, No. 11 - Assessing Vocational Loss When the Workers Earns Equivalent Wages Vol. 5, No. 12 - The Mensana Pain Test Helps Distinguish Effective Pain Treatments Vol. 6, No. 1 & 2 - Chronic Pain Myth #1 - It's Only Subjective Vol. 6, No. 3 - When Judges Dislike Vocational Testimony -or- Six Months Ago, the VE Couldn't Spell Expert, Now He Are One. Vol. 6, Nos. 4 & 5 - Chronic Pain Myths #2 - 4 (Disease Model, Malingering, Pain Clinics) Vol. 6, Nos. 6 & 7 - Mensana Clinic Pain Validity Test Vol. 6, Nos. 8 & 9 - Chronic Pain Myth #5 (Psychological, Psychiatric) Vol. 6, Nos 10 & 11 - Chronic Pain Myth #6 (Secondary Gain) Vol. 6, No. 12 - Chronic Pain Myths #7 & 8 (Family Docs, Post-settlement recovery) 1999 Annus Horribilis - No Newsletters - See Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2.
Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2 - Pain Patient Misdiagnosis -or- Been There, Done That. Vol. 8, Nos. 3 & 4 - Evaluating Vocational Damages in Age Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, and personal injury cases; reading literacy levels in fraud cases. Vol. 8, Nos. 5 & 6 - Life Care Planning -or- Stupid LCP Tricks Vol. 8, Nos. 9 & 10 - Federal safety rules as the basis for personal injury litigation -or- You did what?? And More Planned! Our best wishes for a happy and prosper 2000! |
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