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title: The physician - Expert Retainer
description: Jeff Willis, MD. Twenty years in emergency medicine, three years reading medical malpractice cases for attorneys in more than thirty states. Why Expert Retainer exists.
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Jeff Willis, MD - Founder

# I left the hospital. I didn't leave the medicine.

Twenty years in emergency medicine. Three years reading medical malpractice cases for attorneys in more than thirty states. Expert Retainer is what came out of it.

## I kept getting the case after the decision was made.

I started out analyzing records. A firm sends me a case, I read all of it, and I tell them what the medicine shows. That's [Pre-Litigation Analysis](https://expertretainer.com/pre-litigation-analysis/?hsLang=en), and it's still some of the most useful work I do.

What kept happening is that it arrived late. By the time a firm sent me a record, they'd already spent what it costs to get that far. The medical question that would have been cheapest to answer was the one nobody could ask.

That's changed on the firm's side. Most cases now come with a summary the firm generated itself, which means there's something to talk about on day one. Not a substitute for reading the records, but enough to have the conversation that used to have to wait.

The firms that got the most out of me were the ones I worked with more than once. Not because the analysis got better. Because they stopped sending me finished questions and started asking me while they were still deciding.

Three years of this built something else too. Specialists across the country will take a case from me because they know a physician read the request before it reached them. That's the network [a membership](https://expertretainer.com/membership/?hsLang=en) opens.

So I built the membership. Call me when a case comes in, and if it turns out to need the full records analyzed, we do that too.

Most cases should start with a phone call.

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Jeff Willis, MD Founder and medical director

## I spent twenty years making critical decisions with incomplete information.

Medical school

University of Missouri–Columbia, 2003.

Emergency medicine residency

Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2006.

Twenty years of community emergency medicine

Level 1 and level 2 trauma centers, and five years in a five-bed rural emergency department.

Every specialty, every day

Emergency medicine is where the undifferentiated patient arrives. You work with every service in the hospital, and you learn quickly which question belongs to which specialist.

I left clinical practice. I'm still a physician.

Active medical license, board certified in emergency medicine.

> Jeff is excellent, quick and thorough. We don't use anyone other than Jeff to do initial reviews of our medical malpractice cases.

ER Attorney Client, Philadelphia, PA

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Take three months and ask me anything.

That's what the membership is. Get a physician on the phone the day a case comes in, before you've spent anything on it.

First three months free. Then $500 a month, per attorney. Cancel any time, no contract.

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