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Is medical negligence common?

April 26, 2017common medical negligence

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Is medical negligence common?

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Yes, more than you know. If official estimates of 98,000 deaths a year from malpractice in hospitals alone, plus the hundreds of thousands of malpractice deaths outside hospitals, when added to the many hundreds of thousands, or even millions of injuries from malpractice per year indicate malpractice is common, then the answer is yes, medical and hospital negligence is common. But only a tiny percentage of malpractice victims or their survivors ever make a claim or file a lawsuit for the injuries or deaths.