Becker's Healthcare October 11, 2024
Claire Wallace

The most frequent cause of medical malpractice allegations against physicians is a failure to diagnose patients or a delay of diagnosis, according to Medscape’s “The Rising Price of Risk Management: Physicians and Malpractice Report 2024,” published Oct. 11.

Here are the 10 most frequent malpractice-related allegations against physicians:

1. Failure to diagnose/delayed diagnosis: 35%

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