Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s been a while but Legal Grounds is back!
As anyone inside or outside the legal arena knows, trying a case can lead you to places that take up a significant amount of bandwidth – and that’s exactly where Team TBF (The Bassett Firm) has been.
But while I’ve had more back-to-back 12 hour days in the past two months than I’ve had in most of my legal career, as I got ready for this week’s guest, I was reminded of the folks for whom these kinds of hours are just par for the course.
And while the case I was working on did involve some pretty devastating details, it was merely a singular story of tragedy that I’ve had to process these past couple months.
But when it comes to those folks working in healthcare – especially during the pandemic – tragic loss can become the background music to their daily routines. And yet, they persevere.
In the grand scheme of things, if you find yourself in a hospital setting, there is a good chance you’ll get to know your nurses much better than you’ll ever know your physician. And they aren’t just on the ‘frontlines;’ oftentimes they work so far forward they’re actually ‘behind enemy lines.’
They are the glue that holds the healthcare system together - able to spot even the smallest details inside the mountains of paperwork and intricate bureaucracy that is healthcare.
That’s why people Legal Nurse Consultants, like my guest, Valerie Lane, can be invaluable to helping find the ‘rub’ in any given case. They have a different lens that, when employed correctly, can spot even the smallest incongruities
Valerie has been a practicing RN for nearly 3 decades. She has specialized in everything from surgical nursing to extended care treatment. And in 2007, began her journey as a Legal Nurse Consultant, eventually founding her own practice, Lane & Associates, which provides attorneys with everything from synthesizing medical histories, finding deviations of care, and locating expert witnesses in a given field - just to name a few.
Valerie is a graduate of Excelsior College’s school of nursing, and of the past couple of years she has - as any good leader does - dived back into her education in an effort to be the best servant to her clients and, by extension, their clients.
As always, the conversation was as illuminating as it was enjoyable.
Thanks for sticking around! It feels good to be back to our regularly scheduled programing so make sure to keep an eye out for new episodes popping up in your feed.
Be Easy, y’all.
-Mike H. Bassett
