Each year the number of deaths attributed to medical malpractice is climbing with seemingly no end in sight. In fact, medical malpractice is the third highest cause of death in the U.S. today.<\/p>\n
Medical malpractice is actually a much bigger problem than many people realize and even bigger than medical professionals want to admit. The latest statistics on the Internet show that roughly 225,000 people die each year as a direct result of medical malpractice. The main question really ought to be, what is anyone doing about it?<\/p>\n
The scary thing about the statistics is that despite the rising numbers of deaths there are very few lawsuits filed. It appears that only 2% of the potential 225,000 claims for med mal actually make it as far as filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. Unfortunately, the numbers of plaintiffs who are awarded compensation is even smaller. This should not stop anyone who feels they have (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each year the number of deaths attributed to medical malpractice is climbing with seemingly no end in sight. In fact, medical malpractice is the third highest cause of death in the U.S. today. Medical malpractice is actually a much bigger…<\/span><\/p>\n