Being a doctor is a high stress job. One mistake and a lawsuit could happen.<\/p>\n
Not all doctors face lawsuits, and typically, there are some specialties that get sued more than others, but that is not common knowledge. That information, or at least a snapshot of that information, was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their study covered close to 41,000 medical malpractice claims against doctors across America from 1991 to 2005. Most doctors in the study were an average age of 49 years old, with the low end being 30 and the high end being 70.<\/p>\n
Of the 41,000 doctors sued, those that had a closed complaint relating to medical malpractice, just about 7.4 percent were sued regardless of what kind of medicine they practiced. Out of that number, at least 1.6 percent had to pay out on the claim. Overall, the New England Journal of Medicine study revealed (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being a doctor is a high stress job. One mistake and a lawsuit could happen. Not all doctors face lawsuits, and typically, there are some specialties that get sued more than others, but that is not common knowledge. That information,…<\/span><\/p>\n