New Harvard study debunks medical malpractice "crisis"

Kevin Drum has the link to the Harvard study, which confirms previous studies, on the real state of medical malpractice claims in America here.

Some interesting findings Drum highlights:

Administration and litigation costs in our system are indeed very high, but the vast majority of the claims in the study were properly decided: the patients who suffered injury due to medical errors were compensated and those who weren't, weren't.

About 150 [out of about 1500] of the cases involved patients who received compensation even though there was apparently no medical error.

236 of the cases involved patients who received no compensation even though they suffered injury due to medical error.

A direct link to the official press release for the study of 1452 closed cases, which account for 80% of all malpractice suits is here.

Kudos to Drum for linking to this important story.