Personal Injury Law

Medical Study Reveals Very Disturbing Findings About Doctors

By Evan Rosen

According to the Annals of Internal Medicine, which surveyed more than 1,600 physicians in 2003 and 2004 for their recently published report, 46% of physicians admitted to not reporting serious medical errors that had been made. "There is a measurable disconnect between what physicians say they think is the right thing to do and what they actually do," said Eric Campbell of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led the survey. Despite the numbers above, 96% of those surveyed said they should report all instances of incompetence or medical errors to the proper authorities. Again showing the disconnect, 93% said they should provide care regardless of a patient's ability to pay, yet only 69% treat uninsured patients.

Full post as published by Fort Lauderdale Personal Injury Lawyer on December 05, 2007 (boomark / email).