Breaking the vicious cycle of medical malpractice lawsuits

Lawsuits are conventional in medical practice. An unhappy patient hires a malpractice attorney, who hires a medical expert, who interprets the standards of care and generalizes a departure from the standards of care and proximate cause. The preponderance of evidence is 50% certainty plus an ill-defined scintilla, which needs to be only 0.01% to be Read more… Breaking the vicious cycle of medical malpractice lawsuits originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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