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Medical Malpractice by the Numbers

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Patients usually don’t consider the thought of medical malpractice. After all, people are entrusting their lives to a medical professional, who has years of experience and specialized training. However, even doctors can make life-threatening mistakes. Worse yet, there have been cases of medical malpractice, in which negligence was to blame for an [...]