Once or twice a month, Steven Nadler travels across the country to Washington from his home in Boca Raton, Florida, to medically examine workers who suffered injuries on the job and assess their recoveries for the workers’ compensation system.
Nadler, an orthopedist who turns 79 this year, performs as many as nine exams each day.
A contracting company recruited him back in 2018 to conduct these “Independent Medical Exams” — third-party assessments of workplace injuries. Nadler said he enjoyed that the trips allowed him to regularly visit his daughter while she attended the University of Washington…