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Understanding Medicolegal Conclusions - AFI-LLC Newsletter December 2020

Each month our agency publishes an interactive and informative newsletter for clients and colleagues. Our newsletters
cover news from associations and our profession – from training and conferences, to legislative. We also cover our
services in the areas of Expert Legal Investigations and Medicolegal Consultations of Personal Injury, Negligence and
Death in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation.

The current issue is posted at www.DeathCaseReview.com/afi-llc-newsletters

The Holiday Season is Upon Us!
We hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and spent time with your families! November starts the traditional
holiday season we find through the new year. From Thanksgiving to Christmas, and including Hanukkah and then
bringing in the New Year. To our clients and colleagues, we wish all a very Merry Christmas and Hannukah Wishes from
our family to yours.

This season we have much to be thankful for and move forward to - just around the corner. Let us now put 2020 behind
us, and welcome 2021 fresh and renewed!

2021 Must Be Immediately Different from 2020
In the January newsletter we started 2020 with, “It is here - the year of perfect vision!” Well, 2020 turned out to be more
like a “Crime Scene – Do Not Cross!” since March. We should not start the New Year of 2021 with a continuation of 2020.
Going into the ninth and tenth months is starkly different than the two weeks and then 30 days we were asked, and did,
sacrifice. The sacrifices were not just in days and weeks. Lives were saved, treatments developed. Now is the time for
recovery. Of concern are the physical, mental and economic health we will experience in 2021 as consequences to 2020.

In his 1933 Presidential Inauguration speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt stated it best, as adapted from Henry David Thoreau:
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is … fear itself — nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” This was at a time of the Great
Depression, which the US was plunged into in 1929. In March it was said the new normal of social distancing and self-
isolation to recovery could be three years – 2023; in one early modeling report it stated “indefinitely”, and caused great
alarm and hoarding panic. Each month and new restrictions we were repeatedly assured two weeks, then 30 days.

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