Still, Chenven eschews absolutes when it comes to the issue of whether in general managed care results in a greater malpractice threat to physicians. There are no easy sound bites. Nobody knows what the truth is. We're just in the early phase. Some physicians feel more certain.
Lawsuits are up.
The doctor has to cut corners. Unless you cut corners you can't save money under managed care. Whatever the merits of Green's critique, evidence for his view of malpractice exposure is sketchy at best. However, when examined from a distance, physician loss trends show a slow but steady upward trend since 1988. Failure to diagnose According to Stephen Goetter, M.D., chairman of the professional liability committee for the American Society of Internal Medicine and a practicing internist in Decatur, Ill., the biggest increase in suits against primary care doctors in the last decade has been for failure to diagnose disease.