Top 10 Specialties Sued: 2013 Malpractice Report
Nearly 1,400 physicians who were sued for medical malpractice share their experience in Medscape’s...
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Most Docs Practice Defensive Medicine
You may have missed this when it first appeared. Experts from Harvard and the University of Southern California say assumptions made by some analysts that defensive medicine is not an important facet of the high cost of...
Read MoreTime Spent on Unresolved Malpractice Claims
The average physician in the United States spends nearly 11% of a 40-year career with an unresolved, open malpractice claim, according to a study from American researchers. The authors recommend that malpractice reform efforts...
Read MoreThe “Second Victims” in Nursing
Tears rolled down my face as I came across an article written 2 years ago. A veteran pediatric nurse took her own life several months after administering a fatal overdose of an electrolyte to an infant. After investigations and...
Read MoreUnnecessary Pre-Op Tests & Evidence-Based Guidelines
Another paper on the subject of unnecessary preoperative laboratory testing appeared not long ago. A group from the University of Texas Medical Branch looked at more than 73,000 elective hernia repairs in the National Surgical...
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