Injury Illustrated: How Medical Images Win Legal Cases

As a retired medical illustrator I found it a very interesting summation of where medical legal illustration is today. I strongly recommend that law students and practicing attorneys buy and read the book. I did work in this niche of medical illustration briefly so it was interesting to find out where the state of the art is. This would also be an excellent introduction to part of a wonderful and intellectually demanding profession that I practiced for more than forty years.

The book is beautiful and very well written!

Who wouldn't want to read a book with a picture like this in it? Annie Gough uses her talents for illustration and storytelling to compassionately help folks hurt in everyday America. With a blend of self-revelation, wit and clever narrative, she pulls back the curtain on medical illustration - particularly those who dedicate themselves to forensic work. If you're interested in medical illustration or need one as a litigator, this book will help her help you. It is filled with ideas not just about forensic illustration, but also how to use the many tools available (keenly mixing old-school analog with uber-modern techniques) to bring a human's tragedy to life with heart and soul in a way that's visceral and meaningful. Having read her book and seen her present her work, it's obvious Annie's talent and passion will keep her at the top of her field, drawing until her fingers ache to help tell stories with a human touch.

If I could draw a picture of what I think of this book, it would be the face of a juror at the moment of understanding a complex medical concept after being shown an explanatory medical illustration. In her book, Injury Illustrated, Annie Gough tells her story of her becoming a medical illustrator and how attorneys use her creations to tell the stories of their clients. Of course, the illustrations in the book are gorgeous and self-explanatory, so one can see how they can inform and sway juries. This book will be useful to attorneys who are considering hiring a medical illustrator to bring radiological imaging to life so that non-medical people can understand it, or to show the extent of injury or surgical procedures. It will also be of interest to aspiring medical illustrators, potential expert witnesses, and law students. Annie Gough is more than a medical illustrator (she made an exhibit with a soda bottle and 3 liters of fake pus!). She is talented storyteller and an ally upon whom attorneys may rely to help fight for their clients.

This book reads like a legal thriller with really cool pictures. I enjoyed learning about the history of medical illustration - a field not many know about. Annie Gough writes about the cases illustrated like a storybook. It reminds me of Mary Roach’s book “Stiff” and Paul Kalanithi’s “When Breath Becomes Air.” Topics that most aren’t drawn to, but make for an interesting read. I highly recommend.

This book is a great read from start to finish. Part memoir; part history of medical illustration; part "how to" of medical legal illustration; part what can go wrong at work, in the car, or under the surgeon's scalpel. It's a page turner. You'll finish it so fast and then stand there marveling at all you learned while you were busy hanging on every word. Also, there's pictures! Lots and lots of great pictures. Highly recommend.

I am a current graduate student of Biomedical Visualization (medical illustration) and I LOVED this one-of-a-kind book! Not only did it further inspire me to pursue a career in legal art, but it also gave me a lot of history and perspective! I only wish I had been able to read this book while I was taking my medical-legal visualization graduate course!If you are (or know someone) interested in pursuing a career that combines art, science, and strategy GET THEM THIS BOOK!

Photographs may not exist or be enough to show how a client was injured or the sequence of events. Lawyers need a certified medical illustrator to go where the camera cannot and make visual distinctions that the untrained eye does not see. Annie Gough's Injury Illustrated, is unique because it takes the time to show and tell how you can benefit from using graphic images and animations. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then using this book with its many examples and case studies is sure to increase the value of your current and future cases.