Reduce Malpractice Risks When Treating Cardiac Patients
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Cardiologists are involved in 22 percent of all claims involving a cardiology-related diagnosis, followed in frequency by internists (19 percent), family medicine practitioners (14 percent), hospitalists (8 percent), emergency medicine doctors (7 percent), anesthesiologists (4 percent), and cardiac surgeons (3 percent), according to The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017