Cardiology and medical malpractice: Medical Malpractice

Cardiology and medical malpractice: Cardiology is one medical specialty with higher than average medical malpractice litigation rates. This may be because of the severity of likely outcomes if there is a diagnostic or treatment error. Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of heart attack is a common allegation in medical malpractice lawsuits, and this is particularly common in providing emergency medical care. (It's not clear what proportion of heart attack malpractice cases involve cardiologists versus emergency physicians in the ER.)

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30% of the dollars for ER medical malpractice lawsuits involve heart attack (Suing for Medical Malpractice, Sloan et al, 1993)

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