The Effects Of Medical Malpractice

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Malpractice is improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, by a medical practitioner. Not a lot of people know what malpractice is or how it happens until it's too late and it's already happened to them. The number of medical malpractice suits filed each year in the United States tends to vary but the overall trend is that they are rising. Most people don't pay attention to malpractice until it's too late and it's happening to them and it's unbearable.The average annual number of suits filed each year is about 85,000, with the actual number of medical injuries estimated to be about one million per year. The amount of malpractice cases is rising and is continuing to rise and that's not good for the economy or for the civilians. “More than 250,000 people die each year in the United States because of medical errors.”( Manning) The issue is that malpractice is happening to often now and needs to come to a decline. I am a witness to this and so are both sides of my family with different …show more content…

“Research has found that just 1 percent of U.S. doctors are at fault in a third of the medical malpractice claims paid out in 2016.”( manning) this quote is elaborating on how the number of malpractice cases may be high but the percentage of doctors convicted of malpractice is very low at 1%. A doctor's main goal is to provide care for their patients and give them the best care of their ability to help them. When becoming a doctor you have to take an oath about providing care to any patient no matter what. A lot of patients have good outcomes and different recoveries from treatments but that's just depending on the treatment and the individual. With only 1% of doctors actually being convicted of malpractice it makes the number of cases not look as reliable because a case can be filed but dropped. Malpractice in this case is being blown out of

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