CarlShulman comments on Useless Medical Disclaimers - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2007 04:48PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 19 March 2007 06:47:37PM 3 points [-]

MD,

Doctors win 73% of medical malpractice cases that go to trial. Perhaps your information suffers from a reporting bias: the narratives that physician-litigants are willing to tell others about, and that resonate with their peers, are those in which doctors are unjustly persecuted.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/mmtvlc01.htm

Comment author: Clarity 17 February 2016 10:29:36AM 0 points [-]

This kills my enthusiasm for health courts. Thanks.