Struggling with malpractice and medical defence subscriptions

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...

Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice

Decision Analysis and Medical Malpractice

Coping with a medical malpractice suit.

Medical work is highly stressful, and physicians increasingly feel loss of control over their clinical decision making. Nonetheless, most physicians are competent and achieve a reasonable level of satisfaction in their personal and professional lives that serves as good preparation for managing the litigation experience (box 1). Physicians are especially challenged, however, when an unexpected ...