Failure To Escalate Expert Witnesses
Failure to escalate expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on failure to escalate. The failure to escalate expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, and Nurse.
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Marilyn E McCullum, BSN, RN, CEN, CPEN TCRN
ED Nurse Expert – Triage & Documentation
McCullum Legal Nurse Consulting
SANTA ROSA, California
Emergency Medicine, Nurse
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ER Nurse, Nursing standard of care, critical care, trauma, emergency nurse, triage, ultrasound IV, Stroke, sepsis recognition and delays, pediatrics, stroke, cardiac, Ed flow and timeline, Failure to escalate, Documentation gaps and inconsistencies , Delays in care, fall, Emergency department triage (ESI) , catheter
Emergency department nurse expert focused on triage decisions, delays in care, and documentation gaps.
I assist attorneys in determining what likely occurred during an ED visit, where care may have broken down, and whether a case warrants further investment. My reviews are structured to provide early clarity around standard of care, timeline of events, and clinical decision-making.
I am a US-trained emergency nurse, dually licensed in California and New Zealand, and work with US attorneys remotely.
I remain clinically active, working approximately 32 hours per week in the emergency department. My current practice informs case review with real-time understanding of ED workflow, triage systems, and evolving standards.
I have provided expert analysis and testimony in depositions and legal proceedings. My work includes detailed chart review, identification of delays in care, triage accuracy, escalation decisions, and documentation integrity.
I have published on emergency department...
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Sunny Jain, MD
Frontline Hospitalist & IM Expert
SecondOpinion.org
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hospitalist, Internal Medicine
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Altered Mental Status, Documentation, Hospital Medicine, Acute Care, Inpatient Care, Standard of Care, Medical Malpractice, Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, Clinical Deterioration, Sepsis, Respiratory Failure, Aspiration, Stroke Complications, Medication Management, Discharge Planning, Readmission, Failure to Escalate, Causation
Board-certified Internal Medicine physician and frontline hospitalist with 12 years of active inpatient experience. Assistant Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. Available for plaintiff and defense case reviews involving hospitalist standard of care, acute care decision-making, clinical deterioration, sepsis, respiratory failure, aspiration pneumonia, stroke complications, altered mental status, discharge safety, medication management, documentation, causation, and damages.
Dr. Sunny Jain actively practices as a hospitalist at Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster, Massachusetts. He reviews cases from the perspective of a current inpatient physician who makes real-time decisions about admission, monitoring, escalation of care, transfer, discharge, medication management, consultant involvement, and response to evolving clinical data.
His medical-legal work focuses on whether the care provided was clinically reasonable under the circumstances, wh...