Here are the top three reasons physicians said they were sued for malpractice. Respondents could select more than one answer.
1. Failure to diagnose — 31 percent
2. Patient suffered abnormal injury — 31 percent
3. Failure to treat — 12 percent
Other less common reasons stated included errors in medication administration (4 percent), poor documentation of patient instruction and education (4 percent), failure to follow safety procedures (3 percent) and improperly obtained, or lack of, informed consent (3 percent).
Of the roughly 4,000 physicians surveyed, many also provided reasons they were sued qualitatively. These reasons spanned injuries or death during surgeries, late or misdiagnosis of cancer, in-hospital or postoperative infections, birth defects or fetal death and, “Who knows?”
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