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Jan 17, 2008 12 min

Malpractice Claims: The Impact of System Errors

from Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Richard Anderson, MD System errors have a large impact on medical malpractice claims, but did you know they contributed to 30 percent of settled claims? They do, according to a study by one of the largest doctor-run medical malpractice carriers. Dr. Richard Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer of Napa, Calif.-based national malpractice carrier, The Doctors Company, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about the kind of errors contributing to settled claims, and ways physicians can avoid them.

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