Medical malpractice: A physician's guide

The physician's guide to medical malpractice.

Burnout, Job Satisfaction, and Medical Malpractice among Physicians

OBJECTIVES Our objective was to estimate the incidence of recent burnout in a large sample of Taiwanese physicians and analyze associations with job related satisfaction and medical malpractice experience. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional survey. Physicians were asked to fill out a questionnaire that included demographic information, practice characteristics, burnout, medical malpractic...

Medical Malpractice Reform, the Supply of Physicians, and Adverse Selection

Malpractice reforms tend to reduce physician liability for harming patients. Because these reforms are passed at the state level, the costs of harming patients vary widely by geographic location. In this paper, I test whether malpractice reforms affect where physicians choose to practice and whether physicians who relocate in response to reforms are particularly prone to commit malpractice. Bec...

Incentive effects of medical malpractice. The effects of malpractice litigation on physicians' fees and incomes.

For many years physicians and other medical providers in the United States have been subject to a negligence rule of liability. Under a negligence rule, patients who suffer an adverse outcome are entitled to compensation if they can show that they incurred an injury that was caused by the physician's failure to take due care, defined as departure from the customary standard of care of physician...

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