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2025-05-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-

The US states where doctors are most likely to bungle your surgery

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-18 08:51|| || Front Page|| [167 views ] Top

#1 Is it because they have more medical errors, or is it because it's easier to sue there?

Posted by ed in texas 2025-05-18 10:13|| 2025-05-18 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Easier to sue, ed, fewer limits on insurance payouts, more willing to take on complex cases. Possibly more errors as well — the article didn’t say in the section I read.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-18 10:51|| 2025-05-18 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Specifically, New York — which has the most practicing doctors and healthcare workers, at 35,000 — is also one of 21 states that does not cap the level of payment for medical malpractice claims

Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Its a curse on both houses, lawyers and doctors. The medical establishment is basically absent in policing its own ranks. Professional courtesy? That leaves the lawyers to feast as the remaining means of redress.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-18 11:29|| 2025-05-18 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4
This is why it is called "Practicing Medicine".

I would like to see data on the number that lost their medical practice license also.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-18 15:35|| 2025-05-18 15:35|| Front Page Top

#5 As my grandfather once told me, "Doctors bury their mistakes."

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-05-18 17:45|| 2025-05-18 17:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The 3rd leading cause of Death according to Johns Hopkins Univ researchers is the Medical Professionn

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-18 19:27|| 2025-05-18 19:27|| Front Page Top

#7
OBTW: I looked it up
According to a comprehensive study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA), only about 1,000 doctors lose their medical licenses annually in the United States.

Given there are about 1,044,734 licensed physicians in the United States and District of Columbia. (2022 US Census count)

That works out to 0.095718% of the 1+ Million are the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA due to their mistakes.

Wouldn't that make the 0.095718% far deadlier than many dictators?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-18 19:38|| 2025-05-18 19:38|| Front Page Top

#8 The Minnesota Mayo should be on the list. Dealing with that POS cover up hole for decades. We last lost our aunt and the Mayo claimed it was a heart issue. She had just had the premium physical 5 months prior.

Then there is the matter of Mayo destroying actual MDs careers that called out the covid BS.

Posted by Woodrow 2025-05-18 20:36|| 2025-05-18 20:36|| Front Page Top

#9 The Mayo Clinic claims to be top tier medical care.

But yes, COVID really clarified things that had previously been hidden. I was doubtful about RFK, Jr. taking on health care, but he seems to be proving clarifying, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-18 21:18|| 2025-05-18 21:18|| Front Page Top

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