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Malpractice   /mælprˈæktəs/  /mælprˈæktɪs/   Listen
Malpractice

noun
(Written also malepractice)
1.
Professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage.
2.
A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct.



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"Malpractice" Quotes from Famous Books



... newspaper drawn from his vest pocket as he mounted the desk. Every case he had ever treated and all its details appeared to be thoroughly fixed in his recollection. He sometimes wrote medical essays for publication, but with evident reluctance. In cases of malpractice Dr. Delamater was the especial dread of the attorney whose side he did not favor. His full, clear and logical statements made a deep and generally an irresistible impression upon the ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... applied in medico-legal practice, particularly in malpractice suits, suits for damages, those requiring the detection of adulteration of food or drink, is of the greatest importance. It is not less valuable in determining the purity of an article, especially whether or not the food ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various

... threaten to establish itself, and Friedrich had to publish severe rescripts (one before this Hirsch-Voltaire business, [10th August, 1748 (Seyfarth, i. 62).] one still severer after), and menace it down again. The malpractice seems to have proved menaceable in that manner; nor was any new arrangement made upon it,—no change, till the Steuer-Scheine, by their gradual terms, were all paid either in real money or imaginary, and thus, in the course of years, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Ten Years of Peace.—1746-1756. • Thomas Carlyle

... without fear of successful contradiction that there never was and never will be such a case unless it is made so by the worst sort of malpractice. ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.



Words linked to "Malpractice" :   malpractice insurance, actus reus, misconduct, wrongful conduct, wrongdoing



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