RateFast Podcast: Practical Advice for Depositions

Dr. Alchemy and Cory discuss what to expect as a work comp physician when being deposed by an attorney. This month’s podcast is filled with anecdotes, practical advice, and cautionary tales that you don’t wanna miss!

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Transcription of Podcast:

Cory Oleson (Host): Welcome back to the California work comp report. Today is Tuesday, January 26, 2021 and the topic of today’s discussion is what the work comp physician should do when they receive a deposition. We go over some helpful tips and tricks as well as some examples of “good” and “not so good” interactions between doctors and attorneys. Without further ado, here we go.

 

We are back in the studio today. It’s me, Cory Oleson, and I’m here with Dr. John Alchemy. How are you, John?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Hey, Cory! I’m doing great, how are you today?

 

Cory: I’m doing good. Today our topic is on depositions on impairment ratings and what to do when you, a work comp physician, gets a deposition from an attorney. And I guess we will lead off with why would an attorney give a deposition to a physician? And am I saying that right? Is the attorney giving the deposition to the physician?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Indeed they do. And the person who is being deposed, the physician in this scenario, is called the deponent. So the deponent is being asked questions by the attorney and usually there are two attorneys there, one for the applicant and one from the defense. And sometimes there’s a third one there, and we will talk a little more about that in the podcast. 

 

Cory: And is it generally – I’m guessing that an attorney will come in and depose a physician when there is something about the claim that – isn’t necessarily suspicious – well I guess maybe suspicious. I guess if you have an attorney on the line there is probably something suspicious that needs to be very much clarified in the eyes of the law. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well these depositions can come about for a variety of reasons. The most common one is to clarify the report that is served by the doctor and this can be a primary treating physician that gets deposed, it can be a qualifying medical evaluator, or an independent medical evaluator or whatever the equivalent is in whatever state.

 

But attorneys are usually deposing because there is an applicant and a defense, meaning the injured worker has become represented, the claim is getting to the point where it’s ready for settlement, they’ve likely  reached maximum medical improvement as they will in our scenario today, because we’re talking about impairment ratings, but they can also be called if there’s a question about causation. The doctor can say, hey there’s this condition of rheumatoid arthritis that was flared by the work environment, so it’s not like they’ve fallen down and hurt their back. That’s usually pretty straightforward. But sometimes the causation will be cause for deposition as well. 

 

Cory: I see. So, hi doc, this is the attorney, I was just curious because your client has rheumatoid arthritis in their hands and they only work with their feet. So things like that. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: There you go!

 

Cory: Our “f” word – fraud! A lot of what they’re checking for. But not everything. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: No, not everything. 

 

Cory: Okay. So you’re a physician. Or a physician gets the deposition. What kind of questions so the attorneys ask in the deposition?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well you know usually, they start out and it really depends who is asking the questions, and what they’re really looking for. Sometimes it’s just a fact finding mission. They’ll always open it up. It’s just like you’re in court, so you have to raise your right hand and say you’re going to tell the truth and you answer your questions. 

 

And they usually then want to go in and find a little bit about your credentials so they might ask you about where you went to residency, what specialty you do, maybe how many depositions you’ve done in the past. So they’re trying to get a feel of how seasoned you are, as a deponent and that will kind of set the tone of how much the process will get explained to you. So for instance if you’ve been in many depositions they may just say I’ll waive the details on my rights as a deponent, but if you’re brand new to it they’ll usually just walk you through it. It’s not contentious at that point.

 

Cory: Yeah, you’re not a nemesis of all parties or anything, it’s not a chess game. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Yeah. And most of the time to be clear, these are very straightforward depositions. People aren’t out to make each other look bad. It’s not a friction situation – although they can turn that way sometimes – for the most part they are just trying to get more information to fill in the blanks and hopefully come up with some better terms for settlement and agreeing on a settlement price. 

 

Cory: Definitely, definitely. So you have your general questions that the attorney will ask but then after those questions are out of the way, then you begin to get questions that are a bit more specific to the claim. What would those questions entail?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Commonly they will start by asking how long you’ve known the patient and what the relationship is. Are you a primary treater, are you a QME, if you’re a QME how many times have you seen the patient, what’s your recollection of the last visit? They will commonly start asking questions about the providers or the doctor’s take on what kind of historian the patient is. Do they seem to be consistent with the information they’ve been providing you throughout the visits you’ve seen them? 

And your take on their level of sincerity and accuracy of the reporting they do to you as a doctor. Does their pain tend to make sense with what you’re finding on physical exams? What they’re telling you is consistent with what they can do at home and at work and those types of things. 

 

So it’s just sort of a little setting up of everything so everyone can understand. Maybe you’ve only seen this person once as a QME, or maybe you’ve been seeing them five years as their primary physician. They might ask questions like do they miss their appointments, are they punctual, how do they behave in the exam room? And those can obviously vary, like if you’re seeing someone for their back, the questions will be very different than someone who’s claiming post traumatic stress. There would obviously be a lot more behavioral questions around that. 

 

Cory: Of course, absolutely. Because most of the time all the insurance has to go off of the patient is what you put in your reports.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Yes, that’s absolutely right. 

 

Cory: So what we’re very familiar with is that some of the data is inconsistent. And maybe part of that can be on the doctor for maybe being in a hurry or not understanding the AMA guides, maybe also received earnest or dubious information from the patient that just kind of slipped under the physician’s radar. And it could have just been the patient’s memory or something, that just flew under everyone else’s radar. But it’s the insurance’s job to catch that.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well there’s definitely all of that and there’s cases of information that the doctor isn’t aware of, like maybe the patient had a preexisting condition or risk factor that they didn’t think to tell you about. Or you didn’t think to ask. There’s some of that that goes on, too. All of these are preparatory questions to make sure everyone’s on the same playing field. And then we start digging into the impairment report which is our focus here today. 

 

Cory: Man it would be really nice if the physician and insurance adjuster and the injured patient could just go to the bar and get a beer and get to know each other. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: I think that would bring its own set of issues. 

 

Cory: It really would. So with the wide variations of types of reports, like we’ve talked about before and even in our most recent episode, the specific language that doctors use – there’s going to be variation as to again – a very similar relationship between the patient and the adjuster – the relationship between the adjuster and the physician. The adjuster’s not going to call up the physician prior to the deposition and ask how well they know the guides. But that might be something that the attorney asks and is that something that they ask? And how does that go?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well it’s definitely a question that comes up, particularly when there is a disagreement about the impairment rating, which is frequently. And remember we’re at a table with three people. We have the deponent, the doctor, the applicant and the defense attorney. And it’s very likely that all three have different understanding of the AMA guides. 

 

So for instance the attorneys might be pretty familiar with multiple chapters in the AMA guides just because of the scopes of their practice and the types of injuries that they represent or defend against. And the doctor may be very narrow in his or her understanding of the AMA guides. Maybe they’re a spine surgeon or a hand doctor. So they’re not going to know about pulmonary function tests in the pulmonary chapter or rating vertigo, or the ear/nose/throat chapter. 

 

So everyone comes to the table with a very different background. And then there’s a little bit of question/answer about trying to figure out where we all are in our understanding of the AMA guides. There are sometimes some questions about California for example, they want to know if you know the labor code and so forth. Of course you usually do. I personally just like to, you know if I get asked that by an attorney, I politely just ask, well I’d like you to clarify for me your understanding on how to answer the question in the context of labor code. 

 

And so it’s more of an educational relationship than cross questioning – you don’t know this – so therefore your answer doesn’t count. We try to avoid that situation. So if you’re going to be asked a question in the context of labor code, it’s more than acceptable to ask the attorneys to clarify. And they don’t want this thing to drag out any longer than it has to. And they want to make sure they can get the most valid answers out of the deponent. Most of the time they’re going to do everything they can to make sure you understand labor codes. 

 

Cory: You know, I’m having a really hard time wrapping my mind around people having a disagreement regarding different interpretations of a standardized text. That’s sarcasm of course, it happens all the time. And that extends to all different subjects. It’s quite relevant to the news and things like that. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well it’s a tall order. And the book is confusing. It’s not very well written.

 

Cory: Yeah, and then you have to learn a new version of it every couple years, depending on what the state decides to do.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: That’s right. But in general there is usually a little question and answer to get each other’s level of understanding of the AMA guides. And that usually takes about ten or fifteen minutes. 

 

Cory: Sure. I’m sure there’s some sort of ancient word for that sort of thing. And if I remember it by the next episode or if anyone knows it, feel free to email us at c.Oleson@rate-fast.com

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Bring it on.

 

Cory: We would love to get some listener mail or something! Ask a question, we will do a whole segment on the episode.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: We can make a whole podcast out of it if it’s a good one.

 

Cory: Oh yeah! So you’re here with the attorney and you’ve discussed your understanding of the AMA guides and now how do you, I guess, present the impairment rating to the attorney and how would you walk them through the process of how you did it?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: So the process of walking them through it, the way I do it and the way I recommend it’s done, is you basically start in the same order as your impairment report. So there’s usually an intake about the pain and symptoms and how the patient was asked those questions and how you scored their pain. And in some of the other podcasts we have talked about pain scoring and the process I use. 

 

But you want to start and talk about what the patient told you, and they said it’s 5 out of 10. And because it’s 5 out of 10 this is what it tells me about their ability to do things and how it impacts them. And then take them through the concept of frequency. So if they have a 5 out of 10 pain and it’s 50 percent of the time, walking down that and giving a brief overview of it. And if the attorneys have questions they will stop and ask those and get it clarified. Next, a big hurdle sometimes is activities of daily living. There’s usually a couple of stops in that section. 

 

They want to know how you came up with this or what the concepts are. And we’ve done some podcasts about activities of daily living and those are important to listen to if you’re a doctor and you’re doing work comp. Because those are probably the first and most important sections to show a solid understanding to the attorney, that you know what you’re talking about, you’ve done this before, you didn’t guess at these numbers. 

 

The stuff you wrote down was not an estimate, it was what your medical opinion is and what you’re standing by in the report going into this. And the basis of the impairment rating and the adjustments that they will be asked about later. So it’s really important in this foundation that you’re getting that pain and the ADL out there and you make it clear to them that this is a systematic approach and this is not something you just threw together, threw a dart at the board and came up with a number.

 

Cory: And if you’re a work comp doctor, and you don’t feel comfortable about the activities of daily living, first off, get comfortable with them.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Get really comfortable with them.

 

Cory: And boy do we have good news for you. Just go to our blog! If you never went to a day of medical school, you’ll probably still know ADLs like the back of your hand if you spend an hour on our blog at blog.rate-fast.com. So now the attorney has an understanding of your process and we’re all on the same page with the AMA guides, they’ve given you the questions so they know how you do it and they know your relationship with the client. So now you’ve walked them through the report. So do they go back to their office and then the Jeopardy music starts playing and then you see what happens at that point? What’s usually next?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: The next step is moving into the physical exam. And here’s really where I see a lot of gaps in the understanding of attorneys in these depositions because the AMA guides have a very specific way and a very specific level of detail that measurements are supposed to be obtained and organized. What that data set looks like to validate. 

 

So for instance if you’re doing a wrist you want measurements on the other side, you want at least two measurements, but the attorneys don’t always understand that. They may have read it in the AMA guides but they’ve never actually seen it in practice. Or maybe they don’t stop to think that all the measurements on the wrist end in 0 and 5 and maybe they aren’t actual measurements and maybe they are visual estimates. And they are obviously supposed to be actual measurements. So it’s very rare if ever that you find the perfect data set in an impairment report. And that’s okay as long as it’s disclaimed and understood by everyone that the numbers we’re looking at may not be perfectly brought down from the mountain and here’s how they were done. And here’s how I interpreted them for the ratings. 

 

So when you’re going through the ratings and when I’m listening to the types of questions that attorneys are asking when we’re moving through the physical exam, it tells me a lot about their understanding, their overview and their grasp on the actual – what I call the “rateable data set” in the report. Because in the report, there’s so much stuff that’s sort of there, and I don’t want to say it’s window dressing, but it’s stuff you’re doing in the exam that really doesn’t have anything to do with the impairment report or the whole person impairment value at the end of the day. So when you’re dealing with someone who knows their stuff, they’re going to zero in on the errors or incompleteness of the data that should be there but it’s not. 

 

So for instance if you’re doing a wrist, someone who has a really strong grasp on the AMA guides may say hey, I see you got some x-rays here that you ordered, I noticed that they’re not clenched fist. Meaning that the patient has x-rays taken when they’re making a firm grasp, because that can reveal gaps in the bones that aren’t there when you just take a normal hand x-ray. And that’s one of the pieces of rating for a wrist rating, is a clenched fist x-ray. But you don’t know to look for that unless you know it should be there before you look at the report.

 

Cory: Absolutely. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: So there are all these little things. Like I said, everyone has a different level of organization and understanding. But as you move further through the report, it becomes very clear who at the table has a good understanding of the impairment report and who does not. 

 

And we will talk a little bit about that at the conclusion because when the discussion starts, that’s really the time you want to start walking through them through some of the finer details of the impairment report impairment rating. Because remember that initially when people look at an impairment report, and it can be an attorney, a doctor, an adjuster, a patient – they have an emotional relationship with that whole person’s impairment. This is too high, this is too low, this is wrong, this is right. And when you get to the end of this discussion, you want to be able to tell them that this number that we have before us is not too high, not too low, it is the exact rating that this individual deserves. Because there are a lot of little offshoot questions about all these things that start to swirl. But if you can walk them through how you got to this particular number and why it was chosen, it really tends to abort a lot of that horse-trading that can go on at the end of these depositions. 

 

Cory: You need to walk with confidence in it. And have this stuff in your impairment report, you can’t just fake it until you make it with the impairment report. But yeah, definitely, because it’s naive to think these things are emotionless interactions. There is going to be somebody who takes the lead and that’s going to be the person as you said with the most knowledge in the subject. 

 

Just curious, does it reflect – say you’re a physician that gets deposed, and you have the meeting where you walk the attorney through and you walk all parties through, I mean you just demonstrate yourself to be the he who knows about the AMA guides and everything. Are you then less likely to be deposed in the future, because the adjuster has in their notes that you are legit? 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Yeah, you’ll be recognized for your level of impairment rating and then of course for your ability to do depositions and your reputation will become known depending on how long you’ve been in business with different law firms and so forth. How well you know your stuff, how well you depose and how accurate your reports are at the end of the deposition. One thing I will caution doctors listening to this, if you haven’t done depositions in the past, one of the most dangerous things you can do is come in with the attitude of “my impairment rating is perfect.” 

 

Because that is not going to set a good tone or build any collegiality for the deposition. You don’t want this to be adversarial, although certainly I’ve been in some where the one is less than friendly. But for the most part you want to appear that this is my humble opinion, this is the way I did it, this is how I organized it. If there’s a mistake then own up to it, if there’s a mistake then own up to it, if you misinterpreted something then you own up to it and that gets everyone’s defenses down. 

 

Cory: Listen, I am not, as I’ve made clear many times, a doctor. But I can tell any doctor who might not have heard this, out of life experience, what you don’t want is a severe act of hubris on your own turf. Because that’s debasing. It’s scarring for life. So be humble when you’re getting deposed. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: I started way back when, fortunately, I had a good attorney mentor and his advice was always make these educational. Always be in there to be teaching and to be helping others learn and you’re really not going to go wrong, if that’s your intent going into it. Don’t be defensive, don’t be angry or passive aggressive, be open and honest and be helpful, and ask for help when you need help. 

 

I think that’s the thing with these impairment ratings, particularly in these depositions, if you’re being asked a question and the attorney is saying, well what about page blah blah blah. I always say great, let’s open up the book and take a look at this together. Because sometimes it’s been read out of context or they don’t understand what it was, and it’s not what you thought it was, and I’m still learning, having done many depositions and many impairment reports. I’m still learning the new parts of the guides. And sometimes it says this on this page and then you go one chapter up and it says something else. 

 

Cory: For better or for worse. You said what I was thinking as well, which is you were saying prepare to teach and them to learn. And you said it before I did, but be prepared to learn also. The deposition isn’t an affront to your character as you mentioned. A different context of the way you said it, but it is an emotional decision making process and sometimes we make decisions with strong emotions. 

 

If you’ve never been deposed before, you’re a brand new work comp doctor, you’re kind of winging it because you haven’t discovered the majesty of RateFast Express yet, and then you get deposed, you might feel some type of way if you’ve never had to communicate with an attorney pointed at you instead of you them. Be prepared to learn.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Yeah. It can be very overwhelming, the doctor just needs to remember that it’s your report, you’re an expert in your own report, you wrote it, but you’re not an expert in all things so you have to be like I said willing to accept some other points of view and be willing to say hey I don’t know. The other thing that I think gets forgotten a lot by doctors is, if there’s a problem in your report and something was missed or needed to be considered, A) you can always take time out of the deposition and look at it off record and I think that that gets forgotten sometimes, and B) you can say, write that down, send it to me and I can clarify that in a supplemental report. And you move on. 

 

Because not everything can or should be settled right at the time of the deposition. So give yourself time to think about it, to step away from it for a while, to completely understand what the question is, have the attorneys write it down in a letter and send it out and don’t forget that’s a great tool to use to put the brakes on a situation where you’re saying things you shouldn’t say or you’re talking about things you don’t understand that well, so keep that in your pocket. 

 

Cory: Okay, so in this scenario everybody’s on the same page now. And so what does wrapping up the deposition entail?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well, wrapping up the deposition, after you’ve walked everyone through the report, maybe you’ve talked about something in future care that you think is important that the patient needs and why, you kind of bring everyone to your conclusions, there will be some silence sometimes and then the questions will come out about the impairment value. Why is it this? Why is it 17? Why wasn’t it adjusted? 

 

All of these questions but if you’ve done a good job of laying down your underlying support as you’ve gone through it, those questions will still come but they’ll be very easy to answer. So if you’ve educated the attorneys on how the ADLs are scored and why they’re given the weight they are, the question about is this person eligible for a pain add on which commonly you will get that from both sides, the applicants will want to add on more pain, and the defense does not. This is what these people do. 

 

And so you have to be able to answer that question of this person is getting a 1 out of 3 because their pain scored moderate when it was averaged across the whole day, or the whole week, or something with substance to it. What you don’t want to say is well I think this person seems like they should get a pain add on. And sort of the standing answer has usually been “well it’s my medical opinion.” And I always get a little frustrated when I hear that in depositions or when I hear doctors say that because it’s not a real answer, to say someone should get an add on of 2% because you’ve been a doctor for 1 year, 10 years, 15 years, and that’s your opinion. It just doesn’t make any sense. Yet it gets used over and over. 

 

Cory: I had an analogy to use that was going to be delivered innocently but now I feel like the analogy would just make us enemies. But yeah definitely. Again, this is just one of those life experience things. If one party says it’s just my opinion as a doctor, or something like that, then you’ve seen movies where this happens, where someone says “this is my opinion as a lawyer, I’ll see you in court.” 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: It plays both ways, for sure.

 

Cory: And we were going to get into what happens in the case of an Almarez Guzman, which is something I’m still learning about, feel free to be as descriptive as you want about that.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Yeah so the real common questions at the end become reasons for a pain add on and then the reasons for an Almarez Guzman which, the Almarez Guzman is California’s way of saying could this person’s injury exceed the values that the AMA guides have written in the pages. It’s pretty simple. It can be made confusing by putting in a lot of labor codes and case law and stuff but that’s basically all it is. Is this person’s WPI an accurate reflection of what they’ve lost as a result of this injury and if it’s not, how much should it be? How much should be added on? And that’s pretty much the same thing as the pain add on. There are just some different ways of doing it. 

 

Cory: Yeah, so that generally happens after the claim is closed?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: No, it’s something that needs to be addressed after the rating has been provided. So you do your AMA rating, you get a number, off the table, but then you have to look at the impact of the injury and say is this number really reflective of how this patient is able to function or not function, and then Almarez Guzman allows you to adjust that and that opens up a whole can of worms because there’s no rule on how to do the adjustment, just that you can do an adjustment. And that makes it really messy, often.

 

Cory: You’re in the mind palace of interpretation at that point. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well that’s the way it’s seen many times. But if you have a systematic approach, and the approach we use in RateFast is these questions are no longer subjective they’re objective. And it’s very simple to answer yes or no to do they get a pain add on. Do they get this, and in fact you can even say what percentage they were above or below the threshold for these which is impressive for people to hear. They were under the threshold by 30% or over the threshold by 70%. These values become very easy if you have a system to operate in that makes sense and is consistent. 

 

Cory: Yeah so we have this, it sounds very mysterious to me just by the name, but what is “third attorney”?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Well the third attorney is something that I think is not seen very often in work comp depositions so as I said at the beginning you usually have two, the applicant’s attorney and you have the defense attorney, but everyone in the deposition is allowed to be represented. So the doctor who is the deponent can bring their own attorney in and the attorney will sit with the doctor as the doctor is being deposed and help them with questions or clarify questions. 

 

For instance, sometimes it’s around trade secrets, because people don’t think of impairment ratings as something the provider may have trade secrets or patent pending on their methods. And there are certain things that can not be disclosed for the sake of protecting intellectual property. Sometimes the attorney is there to help the deponent when they think the question is over broad and just doesn’t think that they should answer it. 

 

So it’s nice to have an attorney with you as a deponent, it’s someone else to bounce ideas off of, it’s someone to keep everyone in line so to speak, like I said most of the time it’s pretty collegial and it’s a positive environment, but if it gets ugly for some reason or if someone’s having a really bad day, it’s good to have an attorney there as a deponent to try to settle things down or say hey, we’re not going to go in that direction right now, or we don’t need to do this. Or if you really think this is important let’s bring it in front of the judge and have them help us out. 

 

And it’s a good insurance policy for the deponent, the doctor, to have, because remember this is not a malpractice case against you, it’s an informational safari if you will, for everybody. Sometimes it just needs to be settled down a little bit, or you go in with your attorney and you say this is what I think are the key points, and you can get a little bit of a strategy going into the deposition and remember you can be deposed 2, 3, 4 times on the same case. Just because you’re deposed once doesn’t mean that it’s over. 

 

Cory: Definitely. Because if the deposition went badly, then it’s more likely to happen again. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Or maybe it’s just a complex case and there’s all types of things to be considered. But that basically wraps it up from top to bottom about what I think about the depositions, the kinds of questions and education I give, and how I like my depositions to go, being a doctor on the stand.

 

Cory: Yeah, so you know, as a recap, an attorney will come in and depose you for reasons, to clarify parts of your report, then you will get together with the attorney and the adjuster and go over the AMA guides and get the clarification of your understanding. I forget which one comes first, you go over the report, and then you go over the AMA guides – 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: Yes.

 

Cory: Then they will peruse the report, make sure everyone’s understanding is the same, there might be some waiting in between. And kind of the best thing to do is just give the best possible answers you can, be humble, and remember that it’s not a personal attack on you, it’s an attempt to get clarification. And I’d say I would leave this up to you to give a definitive answer on, but if it’s looking serious, grab your attorney, but maybe get an attorney no matter what when you get deposed especially if you have insider trade secrets?

 

Dr. John Alchemy: For sure. If you’re dealing with a lot of intellectual property it’s always good to have an attorney there to help draw that bright line between explaining and being educational and divulging trade secrets that are protected for your company. That’s a common reason why I bring an attorney in but like I said it’s always good to have a partner there, someone you can bounce ideas off of and someone who understands the legal aspects better than you as a physician.

 

Cory: Yeah. I just need to get this off my chest. I don’t know how my imagination thought this up but we were talking about the third attorney, and this mysterious entity, and how the insurance adjuster has an attorney, and how the injured worker has an attorney and my mind just thought of how you wouldn’t run into a Pokemon battle between two people with your fists blazing, you would throw out your own Pokemon. 

 

Dr. John Alchemy: The Pokemon attorney!

 

Cory: That’s right. You’ve heard of detective Pikachu. People who are listening to this know who Pokemon is, we’ve probably got some big fans in the audience. Again, write in to us! If you’re a big fan of Pokemon. I’ll do an episode on that.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: We will do an impairment rating on your Pokemon. Send a card in.

 

Cory: Absolutely, they battle all the time.

 

Dr. John Alchemy: They have to have some injuries. 

 

Cory: Exactly. Well alright John, that was a great talk. Hopefully people learned a lot and details about where you can find more about this will be at the end of the episode. And happy 2021!

 

Dr. John Alchemy: And people, email us those questions in. Cory, give them the email again, and give them the RateFast website.

 

Cory: So I gave my personal email earlier which, write me anytime. It’s c.Oleson@rate-fast.com but also you can just as reliably write into info@rate-fast.com. And we will talk to you next time.

 

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