malpractice

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Paul's unease is palpable, made more so when Mia mentions the word malpractice, as though Weston had never really considered the accusations in such concrete terms.

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  1. noun Improper or negligent treatment of a patient, as by a physician, resulting in injury, damage, or loss.
  2. noun Improper or unethical conduct by the holder of a professional or official position.
  3. noun The act or an instance of improper practice.

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  • I complained about the utter incometence of the head of my grad program, as well as medical fraud and malpractice; and some kid told me that I ought to have done a better job checking out the school, nd that I could hire a lawyer for the malpractice (what ignorance!). —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Medical malpractice occurs when a person is injured as a result of a doctor's negligent actions or his failure to take appropriate action in your treatment. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Medical malpractice is a true epidemic that has been sweeping our county for many years. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • It is easy to imagine a world of tomorrow in which it would be considered mad, malpractice, and simply culturally unacceptable that a doctor would not be directed in diagnostics by a far superior machine; it is easy to imagine a world of tomorrow in which people would look back and think it mad and bad that we ever trusted humans rather than emotionless, stressless robots to make firing decisions on the battlefield. —  Opinio Juris
  • On the medical-malpractice issue, the classical account has it that there are three reasons to allow lawsuits for negligent torts: to provide an incentive for care, to assure that the loss falls on the person who caused it and not on an innocent victim, and as a kind of insurance. —  Firedoglake
 

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/mælˈpræktɪs/
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