Who reviews the Medical Merit Screen.

David B. Mahoney, MD, MBE is a board-certified family physician (ABFM) with hospitalist and outpatient practice, former residency program director, and a Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Scope of screens: outpatient medicine and hospitalist medicine only. Not surgery. Not obstetrics.

The full 12-page qualifications portfolio is attached.

Plaintiff counsel does not need another expert who bills $8k to tell you the case is dead.

You need a fast, written screen before you spend six months on discovery.

I am a physician. Scope is outpatient medicine and hospitalist medicine only. Not surgery. Not OB.

Order the screen when

• Liability turns on documentation, timing of recognition, or hospitalist handoff — not on a technical surgical step

• You have enough records to read: H&P, orders, progress notes, discharge, relevant imaging reports

• You need a go / no-go and a map of what defense will attack, in 72 hours

Do not order it when

• The defendant is a surgeon or obstetrician

• You only have a discharge summary

• You already know you need a testifying expert and a full report

The memo covers standard of care, documentation gaps, causation, and the defense attacks I expect. It is not legal advice and not patient care.

If that matches the file on your desk, the product is Medical Merit Screen.