Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty
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From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.B.J.); RAND, Santa Monica, CA (S.S.); Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (D.L.); and the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (A.C.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Chandra at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA 02138, or at [email protected].
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