Every plaintiff medmal case has a published guideline that defines the standard. Cardiology has HRS/ACC/AHA. OB/GYN has ACOG. EM has ACEP + Surviving Sepsis. Each specialty pack runs the AI examiner against your witness with that specialty's canon pre-loaded — failure modes, validated decision rules, signature impeachment trap, Daubert vulnerabilities.
$5M-$25M cases
Cardiology + EP →
Missed STEMI, atrial-fib stroke, anticoag bridging, ablation complications (atrioesophageal fistula), primary-prevention ICD missed, CIED infection, syncope SCD workup.
Canon: 2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS AF · 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS VA/SCD · 2017 HRS Lead Extraction · 2017 HRS/EHRA AF Ablation · 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain
18 failure modes9 guidelines2 impeachment traps
$10M+ life-care plans
OB/GYN — birth injury →
HIE/CP, shoulder dystocia, brachial plexus, EFM category misread, traction admission, Pitocin hyperstimulation, VBAC counseling, macrosomia evaluation.
Canon: ACOG Practice Bulletin 106 (NICHD EFM) · ACOG 178 (HELPERR shoulder dystocia) · ACOG/AAP Neonatal Encephalopathy 2014
13 failure modes3 guidelines1 impeachment trap
Highest-frequency claims
Emergency Medicine →
Missed MI, missed PE, missed sepsis, missed stroke LKW, missed dissection, gut-decision framing, vital-trend miss, nurse-escalation blame, dispo on stale vitals.
Canon: ACEP Clinical Policies · Surviving Sepsis 2021 + CMS SEP-1 · 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain · 7+ validated rules (HEART, Wells, PERC, NEXUS, qSOFA, Alvarado, NIHSS)
13 failure modes3 guidelines1 impeachment trap
NQF "never events"
General Surgery →
Wrong-site surgery, retained surgical item, time-out skipped, count discrepancy unresolved, anastomotic-leak recognition delay, CBD/ureter injury, op-note inconsistency.
Canon: Joint Commission Universal Protocol · AORN Retained Surgical Items four-count standard · NQF Serious Reportable Events list
13 failure modes3 guidelines1 impeachment trap
Time-is-brain cases
Neurology →
Missed stroke (LKW + tPA window + NIHSS), missed SAH on thunderclap, bacterial meningitis antibiotic delay, cauda equina red flags, cord compression imaging delay, status epilepticus.
Canon: 2019 AHA/ASA Stroke Guideline · IDSA Bacterial Meningitis (Tunkel) · ACEP Acute Headache (Ottawa SAH / Perry rule)
10 failure modes3 guidelines1 impeachment trap
High-catastrophe outcomes
Anesthesiology →
Difficult airway without backup plan, intraop awareness, capnography gap, LAST lipid-rescue delay, RSI aspiration, positioning nerve injury, medication errors, premature extubation.
Canon: ASA Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring · ASA Difficult Airway 2022 · ASRA LAST Checklist
10 failure modes3 guidelines1 impeachment trap
Highest verdict multiplier
Pediatrics →
Febrile infant <60d sepsis workup, bacterial meningitis as "viral", kernicterus off AAP nomogram, DKA cerebral edema, weight-based dosing, NAT red flags, intussusception.
Canon: AAP Febrile Infant (Pantell 2021) · AAP Hyperbilirubinemia 2022 · PECARN FLUID + ISPAD Pediatric DKA
10 failure modes3 guidelines1 impeachment trap
Defense-side prep mode
Defense expert prep →
All 7 specialty packs flip into expert-prep mode. The AI runs as hostile plaintiff counsel cross-examining your defense expert. Same failure-mode catalog surfaces the vulnerabilities pre-depo so you patch them.
Same canon, reverse direction: the AI examiner asks the questions the plaintiff attorney would ask, with the published guidelines pre-loaded.
When you create a deposition session, tag the case with its specialty. The trainer pre-loads the specialty pack — failure modes, validated decision rules, signature impeachment trap, Deepgram medical-vocabulary keyword boost. The AI examiner then runs hostile cross with that specialty's canon as its question-generation context. Bates-cited contradiction detection runs across every witness answer.
What specialty packs does the deposition trainer include?
Seven deep-dive medmal specialty packs — Cardiology + EP, OB/GYN, Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Neurology, Anesthesiology, and Pediatrics — plus 25+ additional medical specialty pages (orthopaedic surgery, radiology, psychiatry, internal medicine, and more at /depo-trainer-<specialty>). For non-medical expert witnesses, a field-agnostic expert mode cross-examines any discipline: accident reconstruction, engineering, forensic accounting, biomechanics, toxicology, digital forensics, and more.
How does a specialty pack change the deposition?
When you create a session and tag the case with its specialty, the trainer pre-loads that pack — failure modes, validated decision rules, the signature impeachment trap, and a medical-vocabulary boost for the speech-to-text. The AI examiner then runs hostile cross-examination with that specialty's published guideline canon as its question-generation context, and Bates-cited contradiction detection runs across every witness answer.
Does the trainer work for non-medical expert witnesses?
Yes. Retained experts in any field — accident reconstruction, civil and structural engineering, forensic accounting, economics, toxicology, neuropsychology, digital forensics, vocational rehabilitation, life care planning, construction defect, and more — can rehearse against an AI examiner that attacks their own field's methodology under FRE 702/Daubert. Start at /expert-witness; the first full session is free.
Can defense counsel use the specialty packs?
Yes. Every pack flips into expert-prep mode: the AI runs as hostile plaintiff counsel cross-examining your defense expert or defendant doctor, surfacing the same failure-mode vulnerabilities so you can patch them before the real deposition.