Abstract
According to a 2017 survey of 4,000 physicians across 25 different specialties in
the United States, 55% of respondents report having been sued at least once, with
nearly half of them having been sued multiple times. In addition, procedural specialists
are far more likely to be sued. As a procedural-driven specialty, interventional radiology
(IR) practitioners are subject to these statistics. While the focus of all IR practices
is providing the highest quality care safely and efficiently, medical errors and complications
are unavoidable. Understanding the process of medical malpractice litigation is necessary
to develop strategies on how best to avoid and mitigate the hardships of the process.
Keywords
medical malpractice - medical error - medical complications - litigation - interventional
radiology
