Orthopedics among top 3 most-sued specialties — 7 statistics

Orthopedics is one of the top three specialties with the highest percentage of physicians who have been sued, according to the Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Most Doctors Get Sued.

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The survey includes responses from nearly 4,000 U.S. physicians.

 

Here are seven specialties with the highest percent of physicians sued:

 

•    OB-GYN & women’s health — 85 percent
•    Surgery — 83 percent
•    Orthopedics — 79 percent
•    Radiology — 72 percent
•    Anesthesiology — 58 percent
•    Internal medicine/family medicine — 46 percent
•    Oncology — 34 percent  

 

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