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Excerpted from SEAK’s stream on-demand course, "IME Skills For Physicians: The Masters Program" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_KH2W1EHjg&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1R-7QpmRqZQ7oJiTjHLyo3V&index=4&t=27s 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 [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s stream on-demand course, "IME Skills For Physicians: The Masters Program" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02CFUJ7o9wY&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1R-7QpmRqZQ7oJiTjHLyo3V&index=5 Male 1: Not being prepared to defend your opinions, and we're gonna be saying this. It's really very simple. All of these opinions that you're offering as an IME doctor are all well and good, okay? You're doing your best to come up [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s stream on-demand course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful IME Practice” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDnIS6g9ko&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1QbmMVU5t4oG_cuyVvsRAJx&index=5&t=9s Okay. Your report is your best marketing tool. If you have a good comprehensive report and you do a thorough job and you address the issues, the attorneys know that. And they will tell other attorneys in your office, "Well, [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s stream on-demand course, "IME Skills For Physicians: The Masters Program" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjWnP3hoRE&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1R-7QpmRqZQ7oJiTjHLyo3V&index=2&t=1s 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 [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Consulting Practice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llhku7hqzWQ&t=114s I'm going to tell you guys exactly what I do with my first calls. The nuts and bolts. This is what I do. So for most of my first contacts come by email, and 99% of my first contact, I get [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIVZw901hac&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1RYVQuTSJKRHOrwYfS-RN1J&index=6 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 [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5nSN-h-5x4&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1RYVQuTSJKRHOrwYfS-RN1J&index=7 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 [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gdy6F4UgA4&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1RYVQuTSJKRHOrwYfS-RN1J&index=5 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 [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhe13WG1TBg&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1RYVQuTSJKRHOrwYfS-RN1J&index=4 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 [...]

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2G-GOySxOI&list=PLSHIhaKw3X1RYVQuTSJKRHOrwYfS-RN1J&index=2&t=80s 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 [...]