Dr. Reader is available for initial telephone discussions about potential personal liability or malpractice cases, review of records, examination of clients, deposition and trial testimony. FORENSIC OPHTHALMOLOGY AND NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY CONSULTING
Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Neuroophthalmology is a sub-specialty of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery that deals with diseases, injuries and tumors that affect the visual system, the oculomotor system and the motor and sensory systems of the head and neck. Traumatic brain injuries commonly cause losses to vision from damage to the retina, the optic nerves, the chiasm, the optic tracts and ischemic or hemorrhagic damage to the occipital lobes of the brain. Only with a careful and detailed neuroophthalmic examination can these subtle injuries be uncovered, which in many cases cause the individual significant symptoms and deficits. Medical malpractice is that area injury caused by a medical practitioner in the performance of surgery on the eye, orbit or brain that causes significant losses of vision or visual fields, double vision, drooping eyelids (ptosis), disfigurement of the face or the delay in diagnosis of tumors or malignancies of the brain that cause permanent damage to the visual or oculomotor systems. Dr. Reader has evaluated thousands of head and neck injury patients in his extensive career that began when he was the ophthalmology senior staff for the Head Trauma division of the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, California. During his time in the Navy, he began reviewing malpractice claims against the military medical systems. After serving over ten years in the Navy, he was on the staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was a Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology/Neuroophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute of the University of Southern California. He now is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmolgy and Neuroophthalmology at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. His practice includes all of the types of patients described above as well as those who claim to have visual losses that are factitious. These complaints may be due to hysteria, malingering or anxiety states looking for psychological or financial secondary gain. Dr. Reader is nationally known as an expert in uncovering these psychological problems and has lectured and written on this subject.
