05 | 24 | 2006
Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Study: Beware of Assumptions
A recent study by a group of Boston health-policy researchers of almost 1,500 randomly selected malpractice suits in the U.S. concluded that "the problem with medical malpractice litigation is not that too many undeserving people get paid, but rather that not enough deserving people get paid." Full details of the study are reported at Legal Debate: Assumptions on medical malpractice called into question: Science News Online, May 13, 2006 and The New England Journal of Medicine, May 11, 2006.