Where your doctor attended medical school predicts the odds that he or she will be sued for malpractice. The connection between the diploma and the deposition isn't immediately evident, the researchers say. But an obvious implication of the work is that quality of early medical training bears on quality of care in practice. "There is a link here," says study leader Teresa Waters, a health economist at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. "Do we understand it? No, but we find one."
Posted by Editor at October 7, 2003 10:44 AM