Reflections on medical malpractice stress disorders in Neurosurgery

Medical Malpractice Crisis Medical Malpractice Crisis

Medical malpractice.

Few issues in health care spark as much ire and angst as medical-malpractice litigation. Physicians revile malpractice claims as random events that visit unwarranted expense and emotional pain on competent, hardworking practitioners. Commentators lament the “lawsuit lottery,” which provides windfalls for some patients, but no compensation for the vast majority of patients injured by medical car...

Medical Malpractice in Crisis

In medical malpractice, perhaps more than in any other field of civil personal injury compensation, the blunt instrument of tort law is as well suited to the social needs of contemporary Canadian society as the feudal art of trial by combat was in settling civil disputes in earlier times. Plaintiffs have long complained that lawyers are reluctant to take on these cases because malpractice insur...

Medical errors in neurosurgery

BACKGROUND Medical errors cause nearly 100,000 deaths per year and cost billions of dollars annually. In order to rationally develop and institute programs to mitigate errors, the relative frequency and costs of different errors must be documented. This analysis will permit the judicious allocation of scarce healthcare resources to address the most costly errors as they are identified. METHOD...

Topics in medical economics: medical malpractice.