Estimates that by age 65, more than 75% of physicians in low-risk specialties such as family medicine and 99% of physicians in high-risk specialties such as surgery will have been sued.

We train hard and for a long time to be good at our jobs. The experience of being told you did something wrong or missed something is very traumatic. It is an attack on not only on our professional capabilities, but also our identity that is being scrutinized and criticized.