{socialbuttons}Doctor Error's and Malpractice LiabilityDoctor Error's total 40,000 a yearJohns Hopkins reported a new study that indicates that doctors make approximately 4,000 errors annually while doing surgery.Shocking Statistics on Doctor Error during SurgeryResearchers' estimates:- Doctors leave a foreign object in patient's body 39 times per week- Doctors perform incorrect procedures on patients 20 times per week- 80,000 of these so called "never events" happened from 1990-2010- These events occurred in patients aged 40-49Using data compiled from the National Practitioner Data Bank, researchers found:- Approximately 10,000 malpractice judgments were paid, and that- Claims during a 20-year period that paid a total of $1.3 billion.
