Article: Liability a lesser factor in specialty choice.(influence of medical liability crisis )(Brief article)

Although the medical liability crisis may have made high-risk specialties less attractive to U.S. medical students in recent years, malpractice issues are becoming less of a factor in students' specialty choices. According to American Medical News (AMN), this year's National Resident Matching Program showed that medical school graduates are looking past liability worries in choosing their life's work. This year's program established matches for 85.1% of the openings in family medicine; 97.9% in internal medicine; 96.5% in pediatrics; and 97.9% in obstetrics/gynecology. Moreover, graduates of U.S. ...

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