Health Beat's Maggie Mahar offers a well-documented take on medical malpractice issues, including some startling facts from a recent article from the New England Journal of Medicine written by the Harvard School of Public Health: "The great majority of patients who sustain a medical injury as a result of negligence do not sue." Indeed, the New York Times reports, although "recent studies have found that one of every 100 hospital patients suffers negligent treatment, and that as many as 98...

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