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According to the most recently available data from 2010, the total annual cost of medical malpractice in the United States is around $55.6 billion. As of that time, the amount was 2.4% of all healthcare spending. The number seems very high when you first look at it, but considering it is only 2.4% of all…

Not every failure to diagnose is considered medical malpractice. There are many good reasons why a physician may have hesitated or avoided diagnosing a condition. Sometimes patient-doctor communication may be to blame. In other cases, symptom profiles may closely mimic other conditions that are more common in society. Since the right answer is often the…