Phoenix Medical Malpractice Statistics
Medical malpractice cases which are reported to the police or court are counted in the statistics and the basic need to keep track of the statistics is to find out whether the trend of medical malpractice is increasing or decreasing. According to the Phoenix medical malpractice statistics nearly 50% of the total malpractice cases where against the surgeons and this is due to the fact that the most of the operation has got failed. Due to loss of life the people try to complain over the surgeon who did the operation and the number of complaints has increased when compared to last year.
Medical malpractice cases are also filed against the non-surgical medical practitioners like anesthetics for example.
Of the total number of medical malpractice cases that are filed last year nearly 33% of the case are against the non-surgical medical practitioners. Of the total number of cases in this sector most of the cases are filed against the anesthetist and this shows the negligence of the anesthetist towards the patients. Also in most cases the anesthesia substances have failed to work and this has to be actually filed against the manufacturers of the drugs.
The other cases are filed against the quality of the hospitals and other such things like using of sub-standard goods, etc. the number of cases filed in the medical malpractice has increased drastically when comparing last few years. This is mainly due to the fact that the hospitals nowadays are only concerned about making and they are not bothered about the patients.
