New research has found that as little as 1 percent of all doctors in the U.S. are connected to more than a third of all medical malpractice claims. Looking a little deeper into the reasons behind such a disproportionate number, you can see that the doctors linked to so many medical malpractice cases have a number of things in common. For example, a staggering 82 percent of those doctors are male. Most of those are a bit older. Also, four practices stood out as most prone to litigation, including internal medicine, general surgery, general practice, and obstetrics and gynecology. However, the most telling commonality between the physicians is that they’ve all been sued for medical malpractice before. An interesting find from David Studdert, professor of medicine and law at Stanford, shows that medical practitioners with three prior medical malpractice claims against them are three times more likely to be sued…
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