Male medics more likely to face legal action

Male doctors have nearly a two-and-a-half times greater chance of having medico-legal action taken against them than their female counterparts, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. Some previous studies have looked at the sex differences and medico-legal action in specific countries, but none have examined this globally. To investigate these differences on an international level and whether there have been changes over time, researchers from University College London conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. They identified and analysed the results of 32 studies, representing a population of 4,054,551, which included 40,246 cases of medico-legal action.…