Monthly Archives: June 2010

I’ve blogged a lot about the claim that medical malpractice lawsuits force doctors to practice “defensive medicine” – that is, to order unnecessary tests and procedures to protect themselves in malpractice lawsuits. I’ve also blogged about empirical evidence suggesting that doctors’ performing “unnecessary” tests and procedures may be due to the financial incentives that they [...]

A couple weeks ago, I blogged about how July is the month when most medication errors occur in hospitals, most likely because July is the month when new doctors begin their residencies. This week comes news that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is proposing new regulations mandating closer supervision of residents by more [...]

A new study, published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics reveals that more than half of pediatricians responding to an anonymous survey admitted to making at least one misdiagnosis a month. Slightly less than half the doctors also admitted that they make at least one mistake a year that results in harm to [...]

This week Overlawyered featured a blog post entitled “Malpractice Systems In Other Countries” that linked to an American Medical News article on the costs of medical malpractice litigation in the United States. The Am Med News article suggests that the American medical malpractice system contains, “flaws that make the U.S. medical liability landscape more expensive [...]