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  • noun rare Alternative spelling of med mal.

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Examples

  • There's a lot of dispute about whether "medmal" reform really produces significant cost control.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Seriously, the choice of a medmal lawyer is going to be more red meat for the dogs, come November.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Did the White House Pick Its Law Blogger? 2010

  • As you probably know, we Israelis have a similar system, and it has worked out pretty well for decades [though our doctors don't labor under ruinous medmal premiums and the constant threat of tort bar annihilation and also we're a tiny country with a huge tax burden that drives one in nine people, including many doctors, to live abroad.]

    The Netanyahu Diaries Bret Stephens 2010

  • As you probably know, we Israelis have a similar system, and it has worked out pretty well for decades [though our doctors don't labor under ruinous medmal premiums and the constant threat of tort bar annihilation and also we're a tiny country with a huge tax burden that drives one in nine people, including many doctors, to live abroad.]

    The Netanyahu Diaries Bret Stephens 2010

  • Seriously, the choice of a medmal lawyer is going to be more red meat for the dogs, come November.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Did the White House Pick Its Law Blogger? 2010

  • As you probably know, we Israelis have a similar system, and it has worked out pretty well for decades [though our doctors don't labor under ruinous medmal premiums and the constant threat of tort bar annihilation and also we're a tiny country with a huge tax burden that drives one in nine people, including many doctors, to live abroad.]

    The Netanyahu Diaries Bret Stephens 2010

  • I am not familiar with the facts of his medmal cases, but my guess is that they were catastrophic injuries.

    New Hampshire Attorney General Releasing Preliminary Results Of Probe Of Romney Mormon Calls 2009

  • I was the plaintiff in a medmal suit, which we won, and learned a lot about the role of fact in such cases.

    What I think is really going on in the war on trans fat. Ann Althouse 2006

  • I also learned that in a medmal suit, the battle isn't about the truth.

    What I think is really going on in the war on trans fat. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Does anyone else find it odd that the husband never said anything about Terri's alleged orally-stated living will until after the $1 million medmal settlement was paid (300k to him for loss of consortium and $700k for Terri's care and rehabilitation, the latter of which she was never given)?

    out, out, brief candle 2005

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