Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. Warren Buffett All doctors today are aware of the risk of being sued. While lawsuits against doctors used to be rare in the past, trends are changing rapidly and we are quite likely to follow the American example where practically every doctor has been sued at least once, and where being sued is considered to be one of the occupational hazards of practicing medicine.
While this can be bitter medicine, there is little point in waxing nostalgic about the good old days; we need to come to terms with the new reality. Learning how to minimize the incidence of adverse events in medicine, and their impact, is called risk management, and this has become a well-established science today. The practice of risk management involves identifying those aspects of problem behaviour on the part of doctors, that cause patients to sue, and then eliminating…
