The medical malpractice myth. - By Ezra Klein - Slate Magazine
From 2006 - pretty comprehensive look at the issue. Turns out that runaway juries are not the problem. Doctors behaving badly are.
Total cost of legal fees, insurance costs & awards estimated to be less than 0.5% of health care spending.
Harvard study suggests that about 4% of all patients are injured by doctor/nurse/hospital negligence. One out of twenty-five. More likely to happen than rolling snake eyes at the craps table.
Another Harvard study suggests that more than 90% of claims showed in the record evidence of medical injury.
Only 6 out of several thousand cases resulted in an award and which didn't appear to conclusively show medical injury.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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