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Medical Malpractice Claims Against Emergency Department Trainees

October 14, 2023

Patients brought to hospital emergency departments are often unable to choose the medical staff that will treat them. In true emergency situations, it is unrealistic to assume that a patient or the family who arrives with the patient will be able to ask questions regarding the qualifications and exp[...]

Study Suggests Emergency Department Physicians Fear Harming Patients More Than Being Sued For Malpractice

January 28, 2023

ER Physicians Fear Harming Patients: A common refrain from medical malpractice “reform” advocates who want to place barriers to medical malpractice victims being compensated for the harms they suffered is that emergency department medical staff order unnecessary medical tests, often refe[...]

Emergency Medicine Medical Malpractice Claims Statistics

April 19, 2015

The results of a recent study of medical malpractice claims involving emergency medicine that were closed between 2007 and 2013 by the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance company found that issues related to diagnosis are the main reason that emergency room physicians are sued f[...]

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Medical Malpractice Claims Against Emergency Department Trainees

Study Suggests Emergency Department Physicians Fear Harming Patients More Than Being Sued For Malpractice

Emergency Medicine Medical Malpractice Claims Statistics

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