The Medical Board of California 2017-2018 Annual Report disclosed to the public and medical license attorneys that MBC received 527 malpractice settlement reports in fiscal year 2017-2018 per Business and Professions Code §801.1. This regulation requires doctors disclose all malpractice settlements over $30,000.
The practice specialty areas with the most malpractice settlements were: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, General/Family Practice, Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, Orthopedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, and Surgery.
Medical malpractice settlements by practice specialty
The number of malpractice settlements in excess of $30,000 reported in FY 2017-2018 by practice specialty area were:
- Allergy and Immunology: 1 settlement
- Anesthesiology: 22 settlements
- Cardiology: 17 settlements
- Critical Care: 2 settlements
- Dermatology: 4 settlements
- Emergency Medicine: 38 settlements
- Endocrinology: 1 settlement
- Gastroenterology: 5 settlements
- General/Family Practice: 47 settlements
- Gynecology: 27 settlements
- Hematology: 4 settlements
- Infectious Disease: 2 settlements
- Internal Medicine: 48 settlements
- Neonatal/Perinatal: 7 settlements
- Nephrology: 3 settlements
- Neurological Surgery: 17 settlements
- Neurology: 8 settlements
- Obstetrics: 50 settlements
- Opthalmology: 9 settlements
- Orthopedic Surgery: 36 settlements
- Otolaryngology: 9 settlements
- Pain Medicine: 5 settlements
- Pathology: 9 settlements
- Pediatrics: 11 settlements
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: 2 settlements
- Plastic Surgery: 24 settlements
- Psychiatry: 4 settlements
- Pulmonology: 3 settlements
- Radiology: 44 settlements
- Rheumatology: 1 settlement
- Sports Medicine: 1 settlement
- Surgery: 38 settlements
- Thoracic Surgery: 9 settlements
- Urology: 14 settlements
- Vascular Surgery: 5 settlements
- TOTAL: 527 settlements in California
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