Dr. Charlotte Crosbie is the founder and operator of Dr. Charlotte Crosbie Medico-Legal Consulting. Her business focuses on viability reviews for medical malpractice claims as well as assistance with discovery, mediation, and trial preparation. She is an emergency physician practicing in both British Columbia and Washington State. She sees both adult and pediatric patients.

Dr. Crosbie graduated from Dalhousie University Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2016 where she received the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine. She obtained her five-year Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada specialty certification in Emergency Medicine in June 2021 through the University of British Columbia (UBC) at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Crosbie is also board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
 
Dr. Crosbie is also a non-practicing lawyer. Prior to her medical training, she graduated from the Schulich School of Law (JD, 2011) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she studied health law and medical malpractice. While there, she received the George O. Forsyth Essay Prize for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing as well as the Alistair Fraser Scholarship in Law. At the same time, she graduated with a Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree from Dalhousie University. She articled at the Halifax law firm Stewart McKelvey in 2011-2012 and was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2012.

Dr. Crosbie is on clinical faculty at the University of Washington's School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor with the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine in Vancouver, British Columbia where she designed both the junior and senior medico-legal curricula for Emergency Medicine Royal College residents.  She has given several grand rounds presentations on medico-legal topics to her physician colleagues. As well, she is the primary author of a major research project for the Canadian Medical Protective Association respecting complaints against residents and fellows in all medical specialties. This paper was published in the CMAJ Open in 2022. 

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Dr. Crosbie’s medical and legal training positions her well to provide expert advice to medical malpractice lawyers. She has been doing this work consistently since 2021. She has a solid understanding of what makes a malpractice case successful and is quickly able to identify the pertinent medical and legal issues, saving firms from spending large amounts of money on negative opinions. She also understands what makes a case defensible, and is able to analyze cases from multiple perspectives and provide an unbiased opinion to counsel acting for the plaintiff or defence.

Dr. Crosbie has worked in both major quaternary care hospital settings and lower resource settings. These different exposures inform her appreciation of access to care and resource issues, and their potential impact on the standard of care in medical malpractice cases.

Dr. Crosbie’s approach is to personally communicate with her clients and to provide clear advice in a professional and timely manner.