In present practice there is an increased demand from patients for prosthetic implant restoration solutions. At the same time one can notice a possible vulnerability regarding allegations of malpractice, as evidenced by the growing number of complaints of malpractice also maintained by negative reports, frequently incomplete or incorrectly documented from the press. This should require practiti...

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...

BACKGROUND Little information exists on U.S. physicians who have been disciplined with licensure or restriction-of-clinical-privileges actions or have had malpractice payments because of sexual misconduct. Our objectives were to: (1) determine the number of these physicians and compare their age groups' distribution with that of the general U.S. physician population; (2) compare the type of dis...

OBJECTIVES Following earlier research which showed that certain types of physicians are more likely to be sued for malpractice, this study explored (1). whether graduates of certain medical schools have consistently higher rates of lawsuits against them, (2). if the rates of lawsuits against physicians are associated with their school of graduation, and (3). whether the characteristics of the m...

Background: The number of physicians sued for malpractice is increasing, and this situation causes a fear in physicians. aim study to determine the level job satisfaction among emergency examine relationship between these factors. Materials methods: This cross-sectional has been conducted with at four different training research hospitals Ankara, Türkiye. Malpractice have evaluated Fear Scale (...

OBJECTIVE The shortage of radiologists in breast imaging may be related to heightened malpractice lawsuit concerns. Our objective was to examine radiologists' reported experiences and perceptions of future lawsuit risk and explore personal and professional factors that may be associated with elevated perceptions of risk. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radiologists who routinely interpret mammography e...