28/05/2026
Template Thursday - Virtuosa AI report writing application.
If you do workers comp work, you'll know the letter I mean. The one with a numbered list of questions running from (a) down to about (j), half of them carrying their own sub-parts (i), (ii), (iii), and a couple of phrases tucked in there that look interchangeable.
"Materially contributed to." "Significant contributing factor." "Aggravated."
Each one carries a different evidentiary weight, and the insurer or lawyer picked the one they picked for a reason. Answer with a tidy synonym and you've quietly changed the meaning of your own opinion.
The clinical thinking in these reports was never the hard part. The hard part is the architecture - reproducing each question verbatim, answering it in the right order and the right sub-parts, staying inside work capacity language instead of drifting into "retirement age," keeping the psychological injury distinct from any physical one, and making sure every line traces back to the file, the interview, or the testing.
That's the template we've just added to Virtuosa: the Workers Compensation Specific Questions Report.
It maps the referrer's lettered questions onto a proper structure - consultation dates, circumstances, symptoms, clinical findings, diagnosis, causation, past and future work capacity, treatment, functional impact, prognosis - and it holds the legal language steady, using the exact phrase the referrer used rather than paraphrasing it away. It handles both treating-practitioner and independent-assessment framing, defaults to the WorkCover WA scheme, and flags where the file is silent instead of filling the gap with something that was never there.
You bring the clinical judgement and the sign-off. That part doesn't move. What moves is the 90 minutes of scaffolding before you get to the actual thinking.
Built by a psychologist, for psychologists.
Curious whether the legal-phrase trap catches others out the way it used to catch me — or whether that's just a workers comp thing.
