Eighty-five thousand medical malpractice lawsuits are filed per year, but the total number of claims reviewed by lawyers is unknown. What underlies their decision to proceed is their inability to determine which complication results from a systemic medical error in a medical intervention and which is just a random error of nature. Reflected in this
The hidden incentives driving frivolous malpractice lawsuits originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
