Malpractice crisis? We don’t think so. The National Practitioner Data Bank, which is where all malpractice settlements and verdicts must be reported, just released it’s statistics for 2014. For the 13th year in a row there was a decrease in such payments and the total number for the entire country was 8,875, which is 44% lower than the number in 2001 which was 15,898. There were only 294 payments in the entire state of Georgia for the year. So all the propaganda about a litigation flood driving doctors out of business is just a myth put out by the medical industry to protect them from even paying for these errors. This when the statistics show that over 400,000 deaths per year occur due to medical mistakes, a number which doesn’t even include other injuries.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/deaths-by-medical-mistakes-hit-records
Still think we need “tort reform”?
NPDB PAYMENTS FOR DOCTOR ERRORS 2001-2014
2001 – 15,898
2002 – 15,141
2003 – 15,124
2004 – 14,516
2005 – 13,613
2006 – 11,737
2007 – 11,256
2008 – 10,862
2009 – 10,783
2010 – 9,885
2011 – 9,780
2012 – 9,518
2013 – 9,447
2014 – 8,875
That represents a 44% drop in the number of payments from 2001 through 2014.
