{"id":5825,"date":"2019-01-15T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/surgery-malpractice-are-surgeons-more-prone-to-complaints\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:58:00","slug":"surgery-malpractice-are-surgeons-more-prone-to-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/surgery-malpractice-are-surgeons-more-prone-to-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgery Malpractice: Are Surgeons More Prone to Complaints?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n   \n\n[4 MIN READ]\nAmong physicians, surgeons are at increased medicolegal risk compared to non-surgeons; they also have more medical liability claims and claims paid per year. Jena et al.1&nbsp;found that the probability of facing a claim varied from 15.3% in general surgery to only 5.2% in family general practice. In a recent review of National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) records, Schaffer et al.2&nbsp;noted that the number of paid claims per 1,000 physician years was 30.0 for general surgeons and only 7.1 for internal medicine. Although there are a number of factors responsible for this wide variation, the correlation between the physician-patient relationship and the risk of a malpractice claim is well established.\n\nSource: Hubspot\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[4 MIN READ] Among physicians, surgeons are at increased medicolegal risk compared to non-surgeons; they also have more medical liability claims and claims paid per year. Jena et al.1&nbsp;found that the probability of facing a claim varied from 15.3% in general surgery to only 5.2% in family general practice. In a recent review of National&#8230;<a class='learnmore' href='https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/surgery-malpractice-are-surgeons-more-prone-to-complaints\/'>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}