Mission Statement The purpose of the Human Biomechanics of Trauma Institute is to educate doctors, biomechanical engineers, accident reconstructionists, and attorneys. |
Human Traumatic Injuries Doctors are trained to diagnose and treat human injuries and illnesses. Attorneys are trained in the law and have to explain complex medical conditions to other lay people such as claim adjusters, jury members, other attorneys, mediators and arbitrators. The victim of a personal injury in the United States suffers because the system uses lay people to settle claims. Claim adjusters for the insurance companies are not doctors. Lawyers who are not doctors have to explain the victim's injuries to a claim adjuster who is likewise uneducated in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, physics, medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture or any other healing art. It is as if someone that only speaks Swedish is trying to explain to someone that only speaks Swahili about a medical condition that is largely written in Latin and Greek. HBTI teaches doctors how to gather information about the patient and write it quickly and easily into a format that may be able to be understood by these lay people handling claims. The truth is that if the insurance companies employed doctors and nurses as claim adjusters, claims could be handled fairly, quickly and efficiently. It would also result in much higher settlements because these people would actually know what is wrong with the injured victim and would be more likely to compensate them much more for their injuries. Since the car insurance corporations don't care about fair compensation (only profit), they employ people without any medical education so they can pay less for claims and make more profit. Since these giant corporations have billions of dollars to fight legitimate claims, the system is stacked against the victim who is likely to be out-spent in the legal system when trying to settle a claim. HBTI tries to educate doctors and lawyers to be able to explain the claimant's medical conditions so that the injured victim may be able to obtain a fair settlement of their claim. If doctors will use plain English to record patient information, lawyers and claim adjusters may be able to understand the patient records. |