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DID YOU KNOW...?
Working as a 1099 Contractor without liability and Worker's Compensation coverage vs a W2 employee who is fully covered comes with big risks?
In the United States, a patient may allege medical malpractice against a clinician, typically defined by the failure to provide the degree of care another clinician in the same position with the same credentials would have performed.
The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Data 2023 Annual Review shows the persistence of 2 significant types of surgical errors: wrong surgery and unintended retention of a foreign object. Each activity represents 8% of the total events reported, and they rank second and third, respectively, among the leading types of 1411 sentinel events reported during 2023.
The surgical services most frequently responsible for the claims were orthopedics (35.3%), neurosurgery (22.1%), and urology (8.8%). The most common types of procedures resulting in claims were spine and intervertebral disc surgery (22.1%), arthroscopy (14.7%), and surgery on muscles/tendons (11.8%). Death resulted from 7.4% of the cases.
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