Praising the best.
Calling out the rest.
Investigative patient advocacy built on medical records, sworn testimony, court filings, and questions that deserve answers.
Patient rights / Medical transparency / Evidence-led reporting
01 / Why NTS exists
Patients should not have to become detectives to understand their own medical care.
No patient should spend years trying to obtain records, understand an unexpected outcome, or reconcile conflicting accounts of treatment. NTS examines documented concerns while recognizing the clinicians who practice with skill, integrity, and compassion.
Listen
Give patients space to describe their experiences without presuming the outcome.
Investigate
Examine source records and provide relevant competing explanations.
Advocate
Push for accessible records, informed consent, and meaningful oversight.
02 / Investigations & evidence register
Follow the documents.
Question the account.
Each investigation must distinguish what a witness testified to, what an exhibit records, what a party alleged, and what an arbitrator or court actually decided.
Featured case record · Shaffy v. Motykie
What was documented—and what was disputed.
A surgical nursing record described a turbinectomy. The surgeon testified the notation could reflect copied consent language. The majority ruled against the claimant; another arbitrator dissented.
June 17, 2022 transcript, 846:23–847:19; Interim Award, pp. 10–14.
Read the evidence register ↗Arbitration transparency · Document analysis
The numbers are real. The attribution is everything.
JAMS disclosure reports describe different scopes of institutional and individual activity. Accuracy depends on knowing which figures concern whom.
JAMS disclosure records, 2021–2023; Court of Appeal, B330763.
Read the investigation ↗03 / Editorial standard
An allegation is not a fact.
A transcript is not a verdict.
Our reporting distinguishes sworn testimony, contemporaneous documents, allegations, evidence admitted or excluded, majority findings, dissenting views, and appellate decisions. We correct errors and do not publish unrelated patients’ private records.
Praising the best. Calling out the rest. With receipts.
04 / Join the conversation
Your story deserves to be heard.
Evidence deserves to be examined.
Have a patient-safety concern, a documented medical-record dispute, or a story of exceptional care? Contact the NTS editorial team.
Contact the team ↗Do not send unredacted medical records or sensitive third-party information by ordinary email. NTS is an advocacy and editorial initiative, not a healthcare provider or law firm.