re: 250K Americans die per year from ER misdiagnosis.

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If you are a lawyer that wants to make money, medical malpractice is a slam dunk route.

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Med mal is a lot harder to make money in than a lot of other areas as a plaintiffs attorney. The fact patterns are almost always murky, the cases are expensive to bring to trial, they are almost always vigorously defended and tort reform caps in a lot of states have made them far less lucrative. An attorney also spends a lot of time and money sifting through dozens and dozens of potential cases weeding the actual malpractice out of just bad outcomes.