Key Takeaways

Legal aid can help people with violent injuries heal and recover

A medical-legal partnership found that 95% of victims of violence had at least one legal need

Most needed help with benefits, housing or employment

TUESDAY, Oct. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hospital patients are used to doctors and nurses visiting their bedside — but new research shows that a lawyer also can help them recover.

Patients with violent injuries often face legal and financial quandaries that can have an impact on their healing.

The nation’s first medical-legal partnership embedded in a trauma center — the Recovery Legal Care program at the University of Chicago Medical Center — is helping patients by managing their legal needs while doctors tend to their health, researchers reported Oct. 16 in

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