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To: tejek who wrote (508885)	8/29/2009 6:19:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576765

Thanks, that article showed we have a big problem with lawsuits: 83% of all medical malpractice suits in the United States last year was against only 75 counties. There are literally thousands of counties in the United States. Of all the cases that went to trial only 27% of them were won by the plaintiffs in these 75 counties. This is a large indication that most of these malpractice suits are not legit, otherwise there would be more of these cases won. Close to 19,000 medical malpractice payment reports were made in the US last year according to the Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS. This is an absolutely staggering number. It is estimated that about 25% of all the doctors in the United States get sued on an annual basis. This means that if you are a doctor, especially if you are a surgeon, you have a one in four chance of being hit with a lawsuit each year you are in practice. Makes you wonder why anyone would want to be a doctor in this country. ..... What is even more staggering is that of all the malpractice payment reports made world wide, over 80% of those payments were made by United States doctors with the whole rest of the world accounting for just 20% of all payments made for malpractice.