Houston

I don't have the numbers for greater Houston, but here are the 2010 census totals of the state and its #1, #2, #3 and #5 cities:

• Texas (#2 in state pop.): 25,145,561
• Houston (#1 city pop. in TX; #4 in US): 2,099,451
• San Antonio (#2 in TX; #7 in US): 1,327,407
• Dallas (#3 in TX; #9 in US): 1,197,816
• Fort Worth (#5 in TX; #16 in US): 741,206

Subtracting those four city populations from the state pop. leaves 19,779,681. If you also subtract the population of Austin (#4 in TX; #14 in US), that leaves 18,989,291. So only 24.5% of the state population lives within its five most populous cities.

I DO have the census totals by county. If you subtract the 11,008,671 people who live in Texas' five largest counties, Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar and Travis, which are the counties that hold the five largest cities but not in the same order, from the state population, the difference is 14,136,890.

Most hospitals and other professional medical care facilities will have someone on staff who is charged with managing the risk of malpractice. These people are in place to protect the medical facility from very expensive medical malpractice claims. Patients who are injured by a negligent medical professional have the legal right to file a medical malpractice claim, and often they will be paid a large amount of money from the hospitals or doctors medical malpractice insurance policy.

Obviously, the insurance companies don't want to pay out a lot of money, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, so they will try to get the patient to sign a release form so they can save a lot of money. When a patient reports negligent medical treatment, they will be pressured to accept a small settlement in return for signing a release of liability.

The approximate driving time and mileage information -

Between: Dallas, TX

and: Houston, TX

Driving miles: 241

Driving time: 4 hrs

- is based on traveling non-stop in good driving conditions. Driving time does not take into consideration conditions which may extend travel time such as weather, road work, border crossings, and rush hour traffic in urban areas. Mileage denotes actual road miles covered as opposed to Point A to Point B linear distances on a map.