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The purpose of our study was to perform an insight analysis on the reasons for medical malpractice complaints as well as the factors that facilitate the complaints to identify specific ways to prevent them and, implicitly, to improve the medical practice. Materials and Methods. The authors conducted a retrospective study of the medical malpractice complaints registered in the period 2006\u20132019 at the Commission for monitoring and professional competence for malpractice cases in the region of Moldova, Romania, collecting data on both the patients and the medical professionals involved. Results. The authors analyzed 153 complaints directed against 205 medical professionals and identified 15 categories of reasons for complaints, the most significant being related to the occurrence of complications, and to the doctor\u2013patient interaction (e.g., communication, behavior, informed consent). The most frequently reported medical specialties were obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, general surgery, and orthopedics and traumatology. Emergency medicine was often involved in complaints suggesting an over utilization of this department in our country and the need for health policies, which could divert the large number of patients accessing emergency medicine towards primary care. Conclusions. Regarding the dysfunctions in the doctor\u2013patient relationship frequently claimed by patients, the authors concluded that doctors need special undergraduate training and periodic updating during their practice for them to be able to adequately address the challenges of interacting with their patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina56060259","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,28]],"date-time":"2020-05-28T08:27:48Z","timestamp":1590654468000},"page":"259","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"56","author":[{"given":"Bianca","family":"Hanganu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Legal-Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, \u201cGrigore T. 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