As became clear less than a year later - when the United States invaded a Middle Eastern state with a rogue commander who had a strong ethnic power base and was thought to be harboring terrorists - this was a full dress rehearsal for war.
The doctors who had never been sued spent more than three minutes longer with each patient than those who had been sued did (18.3 minutes versus 15 minutes).
...if the surgeon’s voice was judged to sound dominant, the surgeon tended to be in the sued group. If the sound less dominant and more concerned, the surgeon tended to be in the non-sued group.