Here are five best ways to discourage lawsuits against anesthesiologists, according to the Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Anesthesiologists Get Sued.
• Cases should be prescreened for merit by medical panels before they can proceed — 79 percent
• Place caps on noneconomic damages — 60 percent
• Medical cases should be tried before health courts — 39 percent
• Lawyers should be banned from taking cases "on contingency" — 35 percent
• Doctors should stop making medical errors — 10 percent