Quantifying the effects of liability woes
Quick View. April 21, 2003.
The AMA -- with 20 national specialty societies and 13 state societies -- surveyed 4,846 physicians nationwide to determine what changes physicians have made because of liability pressures.
* High-risk specialties: emergency medicine, neurosurgery, obstetrics-gynecology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery
** Crisis states are those the AMA has designated as the hardest hit by liability premium increases
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