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The Relationship Between Waddel Sign & Malingering: What Independent Medical Examiners Need to Know

Excerpted from SEAK’s stream on-demand course, "IME Skills For Physicians: The Masters Program" If you're not aware of it, if you're gonna discuss Waddell's signs, his primary article, the first one was 1980, 1981. But the second article, he and Chris Main say, "The reason we're writing this is, you all have misinterpreted what we're doing here. These [...]

2025-11-24T13:45:37-05:00

How to Write an Independent Medical Examination Report: IME Report Best Practices

Excerpted from SEAK’s stream on-demand course, "IME Skills For Physicians: The Masters Program" Male 1: ...opinion, unless there's an overwhelming amount of medical records, you should always list the records that you reviewed. If you don't list the records that you reviewed, that's gonna be a problem because they're always gonna wave around some record and ask you, [...]

2025-11-24T13:43:35-05:00

Financing Options for Physician Inventors

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" Clearly, the first process in the patent is your own money. Your own money is gonna carry you as far as your own money lasts. And that might be a million dollars into it, or that might be, you know, $5,000 into it, or $4,000 into it, [...]

2025-11-24T13:42:57-05:00

Provisional Patents: Advice for Physicians

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" I'm at an Angel [SP] meeting. I'm hearing about a company. They're technology. I raise my hand. Do you have any barriers to entry? We're provisionally patented and as you'll learn, that's not a correct statement and it's just flat wrong. A provisional patent, it's just an [...]

2025-11-24T13:42:27-05:00

How to Find Out if Your Idea is Already Patented

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" So how do you find out if someone else patented your technology? Well, you can conduct, of course, a patent search. And it's called a patent search because you're searching patents and that's, you may think, why is he saying that? Okay, well, there's another kind of [...]

2025-11-24T13:40:19-05:00

How Physicians Can Make Money from Patents

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" You've got an idea, you've found somebody to buy it. How do you protect yourself? These are things that I did sometimes, but not all the time. You need a representative to do it. Exclusive versus non-exclusive. Most of the time, people will want an exclusive, but [...]

2025-11-24T13:39:40-05:00

How to Spot Ideas as a Physician Inventor

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" Dr. Wilk: Been very successful. I invented the Da Vinci robot. I invented the gall bladder bag. I invented the five-millimeter stapler, a lot of other products that are on the market. So it's been a great 25 years. And looking forward to the next 25 years. [...]

2025-11-24T13:38:52-05:00
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