[bob_theslob646]

"empirical evidence pertaining to risk."

This is a good point, I concur.

I agree doctors should be held accountable, but it is not the case in the U.S.

This article does a great job explaining the issue about malpractice in the U.S.

I have no idea whether malpractice is overblown, but I do know that it doesn't prevent bad doctors from practicing.

(https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a1f4595e4b0dff40be0362f)

>"Our current malpractice system doesn’t work. Why? Because 90 percent or more of malpractice cases don’t even go to court. And the amount of money – and it is vast – that is attached to this “medical malpractice settlement industry,” if you will, is divvied up in such a way that much of it doesn’t reach the patient. It goes to lawyers, it goes to the courts, and it goes to so-called experts who testify on behalf of the defendant or the plaintiff."