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Surgical Specialists Have More Medical Malpractice Claims Than Non-Surgical Physicians

January 30, 2025

Surgical specialties account for most medical malpractice claims. A retrospective observational study to determine the risk for medical malpractice claims for physicians working in hospitals in the Netherlands using anonymized closed malpractice claims between 2007 up to 2021 from two Dutch insurers[...]

Why Do Doctors Make Errors?

December 15, 2024

We recently did an AI internet search on the question “Why Do Doctors Make Errors?” and the following was the result of that search: Doctors can make errors due to a variety of factors including: burnout from stress and workload, inadequate training or experience, communication brea[...]

$7.1M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist For Blindness

December 10, 2024

On September 27, 2024, an Erie County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury determined that a 23-year-old woman’s blindness was due to the medical negligence of the radiologist who allegedly misread her head CT scan in November 2020. The woman had gone to the hospital and was admitted for thr[...]

Medical Errors – Part I

December 4, 2024

One study reported that approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some preventable harm each year, while another estimated that >200,000 patient deaths annually were due to preventable medical errors. Moreover, medical errors have a high cost, with some experts estimat[...]

Study Found More Than 1 In 3 Hospital Surgical Patients Suffered An Adverse Event

November 21, 2024

A study published on November 13 2024 in BMJ entitled “Safety of inpatient care in surgical settings: cohort study” concluded: “Adverse events were identified in more than one third of patients admitted to hospital for surgery, with nearly half of the events classified as major and[...]

Maryland Board Of Physicians Annual Report Fiscal Year 2023

November 20, 2024

The Maryland Board of Physicians (the “Board”) is an agency of the state with the authority to license physicians and other health care providers such as physician assistants, radiographers, radiation therapists, radiologist assistants, nuclear medicine technologists, respiratory care pr[...]

What Are The Most Common Medical Malpractice Claims Against Physicians?

November 14, 2024

A comprehensive analysis was conducted of all paid medical malpractice claims for physicians, with linkage to physician specialty, from the National Practitioner Data Bank from January 1, 1992 to December 31, 2014, a period including an estimated 19.9 million physician-years. All dollar amounts were[...]

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

October 28, 2024

Yesterday we posted our 5,000th consecutive daily blog. When we first started posting daily blogs in March 2011, Barack Obama was President of the United States; a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench causing a tsunami that disabled three nuclear reac[...]

1-In-4 For-Profit Nursing Homes Do Not Comply With Infection Preventionist Federal Requirements

October 27, 2024

In August 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a report entitled “Certain For-Profit Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied With Federal Requirements Regarding the Infection Preventionist Position” in which it reported: As of July 2022, there [...]

Medical Malpractice Indemnity Payments Statistics For 2013 To 2022

October 25, 2024

Fifty-two percent of paid medical malpractice claims between 2013 and 2022 alleged a procedural error. The second most common medical error alleged was a diagnostic error (30%). Diagnostic errors accounted for an average indemnity payment of $428,000; procedural errors accounted for an average indem[...]

Report Finds State Medical Boards Failing To Protect The Public From Incompetent Physicians

October 5, 2024

A Public Citizen report released on October 1, 2024 entitled Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023 examined the extent to which medical-licensing boards are taking actions to protect the public from licensed physicians who injure patients or behave in[...]

What Is The Average Medical Malpractice Settlement?

September 19, 2024

According to Forbes Advisor, the average medical malpractice settlement between 2009 and 2014 was $329,565. Because the average medical malpractice settlement was calculated by dividing the total amount of reported medical malpractice settlements by the number of claimants who received the reported [...]

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