that I give around the country on risk management, I often cite information that I've gotten from Dan. He has become one of our top expert witnesses for ChiroSecure. I've promoted him to our claims people to be there because he spent years and years defending chiropractors, not just educating them. Any of you that have been to one of the seminars that Dan was actually lecturing, you know the intensity of how much this chiropractor knows. I'm honored to call him a friend of mine and a friend of ChiroSecure. We do share in some of the Chiropractor of the Year Awards, but much more numerous on his end than I've ever achieved, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for Dan. Today, I asked Dan to come and talk a little bit more ... Another point of view on informed consent because it's still such a hot topic amongst our doctors and I'm still stunned that some of the doctors aren't using any informed consent yet, let alone ones that we've sent out to you. Dan knows this stuff intimately and I think that by the end of the show, you're going to have a new appreciation for what informed consent is, how it will impact your practice from educating patients to protecting you, so I want to introduce you, Dan, and thank you for being here with us today. It's always an honor to have you and I know your hard to schedule with all of the different things you do and I appreciate you taking the time out to share with our audience today. I want to just turn it over to you to start the conversation on informed consent. Thanks, Stu, and hello everyone. I'm here in California today. I'm actually sitting in my office in Auburn, California, and going over informed consent, this is definitely from the School of Hard knocks. I've been a chiropractor now for 38 years and I've looked at a lot of med-legal cases over the years. Lots of different attorneys, lots of different perspectives, lots of different states, and what I'm going to share with you today is an amalgamation of all of the different things that I've learned over the 38 years of being a chiropractor. As I was listening to them read my resume, all of that stuff is on just one page, so I try to put everything important on a single page. Being an expert in medical mal[practice, it's just a small slice of what I do. I'm actually a chiropractor, but I'm actually an educator. I hang out at Life Chiropractic College West, which is where I was yesterday and today is an office day. We're starting this early here in California. What I thought I would do s last year because of changes that I've seen in the academics, I've updated my informed consent form. It's never perfect. There's always flaws. It can always be updated. I can show my same informed consent form to one lawyers and he will point out certain things and then I'll show it to another lawyer and he will disagree with what the first lawyer says and point out other things. Consequently, what I'm about to share with you is not flawless, but it's a darn good idea. It's a work in progress. I change it literally every year. This was changed at the tail-end of 2015, but as I was talking briefly with Stu before we even started this, there are even more brand new things that I could add into this to make it even a better document. Things that are copyrighted 2016 that I think would be relevant and valuable.
Dr. Murphy:
My informed consent form that I put together, with the help of the attorneys that I
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