Medical Consultant Report

• When drafting a report, identifying the standard of care and any potential deviations are especially important.

• The standard of care is typically defined as, “What a reasonably prudent physician would do under the same or similar circumstances.”

• An example of a well defined standard of care and deviation is as follows:

• The standard of care prior to prescribing medication is to perform a complete physical examination and obtain a list of other medications being prescribed to the patient.
• The physician deviated from the standard of care because he failed to perform a complete physical examination and obtain a list of the patient’s other medications before writing a prescription.