Malpractice insurance is critical and to any physician. Doctors who work with hospitals may have special coverage but when a hospital closes or a doctor operates on his own, then he or she will definitely require some sort of protection. This is not about being a bad doctor or a good doctor but common sense and protection of one’s practice and life.
The article, “A hospital’s closure leaves doctors ‘scrambling’ for malpractice coverage” from Advisory Board looks at the importance of this. The article states,
“Nearly 1,000 medical residents who worked at the now-closed Hahnemann University Hospital spent the final weeks of 2019 “scrambling” for malpractice insurance afterthe hospital’s closure left them with a massive “hole” in coverage, Peg Brickley reports for the Wall Street Journal.”
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