MEDICAL MALPRACTICE : Update on Physician Rates of Liability

By Staff Reporters

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About one in three physicians reported that they’ve been sued for medical malpractice during their career, a new study from the American Medical Association (AMA) found.

The study analyzed 14,000 responses from AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Surveys between 2016 and 2022. The longer a physician works in the industry, the higher their risk of getting a malpractice claim.

In summary, almost half of physicians over the age of 54 have been sued in their career, versus 9.5% of physicians younger than 40 years old. Specialty and gender influenced the likelihood of being sued. For example, general surgeons and ob-gyns, as well as men physicians, had the highest risk, per the AMA report.

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Malpractice Allegations Alter Practice Patterns of Emergency Department Doctors

Malpractice Allegations Alter Practice Patterns of Emergency Department Doctors

QUERY: When physicians are accused of malpractice, how does this experience affect their practice of medicine?

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Researchers Caitlin Carroll, David M. Cutler and Anupam Jena use administrative data on all emergency medicine physicians in Florida to answer this question in How Do Physicians Respond to Malpractice Allegations? Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments (NBER Working Paper 28330).

WHITE PAPER: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28330/w28330.pdf

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