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Message: <blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 621297" data-attributes="member: 23950">Go find the 200000+of them per year in the USA !  :From wikipedia :A 2004 study of medical malpractice claims in the United States examining primary care malpractice found that though incidence of negligence in hospitals produced a greater proportion of severe outcomes, the total number of errors and deaths due to errors were greater for outpatient settings. No single medical condition was associated with more than five percent of all negligence claims, and one-third of all claims were the result of misdiagnosis.A recent study by Healthgrades found that an average of 195,000 hospital deaths in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 in the U.S. were due to potentially preventable medical errors. Researchers examined 37 million patient records and applied the mortality and economic impact models developed by Dr. Chunliu Zhan and Dr. Marlene R. Miller in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in October 2003. The Zhan and Miller study supported the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report conclusion, which found that medical errors caused up to 98,000 deaths annually and should be considered a national epidemic.more stats :The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) produced an article highlighting these medical malpractice lawsuit statistics, with regard to patient deaths:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">106,000 patients die each year from the negative effects of medication</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">80,000 patients die each year due to complications from infections incurred in hospitals</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">20,000 deaths per year occur from other hospital errors</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">12,000 people die every year as a result of unnecessary surgery</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">7,000 medical malpractice deaths per year are attributed to medication errors in hospitals</li> </ul>This totals up to 225,000 deaths each year, due to medical negligence of some nature. And that number is ever growing.Medical malpractice lawsuits abound in the United States today. Many blame the problem on lack of training and insufficient staff in the medical field, but whatever the reason the statistics associated with these lawsuits are rather alarming.According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, based on suits occurring in the 75 largest counties in the US,<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">90% of all medical malpractice lawsuits are brought by patients who have suffered permanent injury, or by those representing someone who has died as a result of malpractice.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Bureau of Justice Statistics also reported that almost half of all medical malpractice lawsuits filed in the US are brought against surgeons.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nearly 33% of medical malpractice lawsuits are attributed to non surgeons.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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