Saturday, 25 September 2010

Private medicine gets more lawsuits than the SAS

ANDALUCÍA (Agencies / Photo: Guardian.co.uk) Medical colleges in Andalucía are warning that private medical facilities are now having to deal with more lawsuits than the public Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS). There is also an increase in collective suits, as opposed to individual ones. So says Antonio de Torres, professor of the Colegio Universitario de Córdoba and Legal Counsel to the Consejo Andaluz de Colegios de Médicos. 52% of suits are now related to physicians or clinics of the private sector, and Family Medicine has replaced the more common areas with legal problems: Gynecology, Obstetrics and Traumatology.

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