Melanie WL Tan
Melanie is a qualified lawyer and medical practitioner based in Melbourne. She graduated from Melbourne University (MBBS) and completed her internship before relocating to the UK, where she read law at Cambridge University and subsequently qualified as a solicitor in London.
Melanie has worked as a medical negligence solicitor (defence), medical indemnity claims manager, medicolegal adviser with medical defence organisations and more recently as a media presenter (you may have seen her face in your doctor’s surgery!). Over this period she has maintained her clinical practice, working as a locum doctor in emergency departments. As an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship holder, Melanie is currently writing a PhD thesis in law examining concepts of risk at its interface with medicine in the area of medical negligence.
Building on this research and her cumulative experiences, Melanie is now a freelance consultant, educator and writer (including in video production). She is available to consult, advise and train healthcare practitioners, practices and health services, patient groups, insurers, brokers, lawyers and other parties on risk and medico-legal issues. She has advised on projects such as the development a new health app, approaching it from clinical and legal perspectives simultaneously. She can counsel doctors interested in medicolegal work - in particular, providing expert reports. She is also available to write content in the form of copywriting or ghostwriting (websites, leaflets, articles, policies etc). Melanie can be contacted via email in the first instance, at melaniewltan@gmail.com.
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