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Dr. Hoffman:
Welcome and this is another Katie May special report update. With me today is our resident expert Dr. Jerry Clum. I have seen so many postings online about this case with such an array of how each doctor feels about the case and how they would or wouldn't respond. I want to stress that every one of these cases are different, as you will see, and if you are one of the unfortunate enough to be involved in this type of a situation, remember that your malpractice carrier along with their team of experts are going to be instrumental in helping you resolve these issues, hopefully with the least amount of damage possible to both you and your practice. We now have a copy of the autopsy report, and I believe that ChiroSecure continues to be the most proactive in the entire profession on these stroke situations as it will affect our entire profession. We have obtained a copy of the report since it was ordered as soon as the coroner completed their work on this. You can get a copy of the coroner's report if you want to. All you need to do is contact the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Please note they will only send it by snail mail, and it takes 6 to 8 weeks to get. Please do not request a copy from ChiroSecure, as we do not have permission to distribute it. Otherwise, we would've already offered it to you. Let's get started. I want to welcome Dr. Clum back again. We appreciate all the time and effort that you put into the entire profession but also into this whole stroke situation, and now this very publicized case with Katie May. I just want to ask by asking, now that we have a copy of this autopsy report. Has anything changed from your original impressions? Well thanks Dr. Hoffman, and it's good to be back in touch with you and in dialogue on this thing now that we've got the autopsy report. I think there have been a number of important changes that the autopsy report brings to the table. Let me say, for example, that in the early discussions, you remember that the news media, I think it was TMZ and some of the other more sensationalized types of publications talked about Katie May having a fall that started this entire process. Then along the way, the family denied that she had had a fall and her friends denied she had had a fall, but when we look at the autopsy report, the external examination of the body reveals a number of contusions that are unexplainable by medical procedures. Now, clearly she was in an emergency room. She had IV lines. She had different procedures performed. Those are each going to demonstrate or develop a contusion at the point entry into the skin and things of that nature, but in the autopsy report there's references to the contusions and bruises with discoloration on the left side of her body, in the upper chest, the upper arm. It's important because these are defined or described as being yellow to green in character. Yellow to green in character means it's a few days old and it's resolving. If we go
Dr. Clum:
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