According to the survey of nearly 3,000 doctors which affected the monitoring and incompetent doctors not common.  Thirty-six percent of survey respondents said that they do not feel obliged by professional commitment impaired or incompetent doctors report.  It also seemed that doctors with more experience of 20 years or more, not so often a responsibility, were being felt fellow practitioners reports.

Catherine DesRoches, lead author of the study was quoted, "self-regulation is the main way to protect patients from harm, and make sure that affected and incompetent doctors help they need."

When it comes to explain to why doctors not required to report other doctors feel says DesRoches, "it is possible that is a cultural problem here." "It is a subject, that does not handle have been may be back, if they were in medical school, so that they do not know, like to handle it."

What was still alarming about this study is that the question of researchers was not necessarily hypothetical.  Researchers found that in the past three years, 17 percent of those polled affected direct knowledge of a or had incompetent colleagues.

The results of this survey give reason more why we lawyers for the protection of patients with misconduct need claims.

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