Last year, when I interviewed Armin Feldman, MD, (Episode #26), I learned about a new medical specialty called forensic consulting. In today's episode, Dr. Feldman, a former psychiatrist, gets into the nitty-gritty of what it takes to practice forensic consulting. He answers questions regarding the required training, liability risk, marketing strategy, potential earnings, and how this specialty differs from working as an expert witness. While this type of practice requires ex

Many thanks to Gene Sung, MD, Director of Critical Care at LAC-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, for discussing his recent paper "Determination of Brain Death"—The World Brain Death Project. This monumental work took five years to complete and includes input from experts in 45 countries (JAMA 2020;324(11):1078-1097). The paper proposes uniformity of the clinical definition of brain death. Dr. Sung related that his academic interest in brain death began many years ago as a