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Article: Preventive medicine: doctors get help to reduce risk of malpractice suits.
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- December 14, 1988
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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
DOCTORS GET HELP TO REDUCE RISK OF MALPRACTICE SUITS
CLEVELAND, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Biblical admonition, "Physician, heal thyself," is being taken quite seriously today by thousands of doctors across the United States who want to minimize their risk of malpractice lawsuits in the pursuit of quality care for their patients.
As a result, they are implementing affective risk management procedures.
Prompting this surge in doctors practicing preventive medicine on themselves is the dramatic increase in patients' chances of winning a jury verdict in a medical malpractice case -- from a 28 percent chance ...