There are 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits filed per year. There are 1 million physicians. Therefore, your odds as a doctor for being sued for malpractice are 8.5 percent per year, which corresponds to one lawsuit every 12 years. To make matters worse, two-thirds of lawsuits have questionable merit. A malpractice lawsuit is inevitable because a
18 words in medical records that restore principles in a medical malpractice lawsuit originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
