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Malpractice claims are generally paid out by a small percentage of the medical provider population. Maybe if you guys policed yourselves better, malpractice wo
by wavefunction 13y ago
Malpractice claims are generally paid out by a small percentage of the medical provider population. Maybe if you guys policed yourselves better, malpractice would become almost non-existant:
https://www.citizen.org/publications/publicationredirect.cfm?ID=7497#13 https://www.citizen.org/publications/publicationredirect.cfm...
This data from the NPDB (started in 1990) provides some insight into how little discipline is applied to doctors who continue to commit malpractice.
- ameister14 13y agoI know a resident who was sued because his signature was the only one on the call list the lawyer could read. He didn't treat the patient, he hardly interacted with him at all, but he was still sued. That's a problem.