A recent study has revealed the Top Five reasons leading to medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors of internal medicine.
The study conducted by Sandeep S. Mangalmurti, MD and colleagues and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine reviewed about 250,000 closed medical malpractice claims that were submitted to the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) between 1985 and 2009. Of those, about 33,750 cases involved doctors of internal medicine.
The study found that the Top Five problems that led to those cases were:
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