How to use this worksheet
Use it to organize facts and documents before an attorney review. It does not determine whether malpractice occurred and should not delay medical care or urgent legal advice about a deadline.
State Deadline Review tasks
- ☐ Record date of each treatment or alleged error.
- ☐ Record when the injury was discovered or should have been investigated.
- ☐ List later diagnosis and corrective-treatment dates.
- ☐ Identify whether the patient was a minor.
- ☐ Identify any public hospital or government defendant.
- ☐ Ask whether notice, certificate, affidavit, or pre-suit screening rules apply.
- ☐ Ask about statutes of limitation and repose separately.
- ☐ Have a licensed attorney calculate the deadline; do not rely on a generic chart.
Tracking table
| Item | Date requested / completed | Source | Notes |
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| 1 | |||
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Keep sensitive information private
Do not place Social Security numbers, account passwords, full medical-record sets, or other unnecessary sensitive data into a worksheet that might be emailed or shared casually. A lawyer can tell you what documents are appropriate to send.
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Reliable starting sources
Use primary or authoritative sources for medical records, legal definitions, licensing, and state-specific rules. General pages cannot calculate a filing deadline or decide whether malpractice occurred.