malpractice
IPA: mæɫprˈæktʌs
noun
- The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
- Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
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Examples of "malpractice" in Sentences
- The medical malpractice coverage is provided.
- The effect is to conflate Bdort with malpractice.
- It has one of the lowest malpractice rates going.
- Cap the amount people can sue for in malpractice suits.
- The firm originally specialized in medical malpractice defense.
- He supported the first limitation in Texas on medical malpractice.
- Physicians examined the records of 1452 closed malpractice claims.
- The doctrine was not initially welcome in medical malpractice cases.
- How much does the average doctor pay a year in malpractice insurance?
- Medical malpractice is kept somewhat in check by the risk of lawsuits.
- If a hospital alters the records, the patient wins the malpractice lawsuit.
- Violation of non maleficence is the subject of medical malpractice litigation.
- Lastly, I’m not sure what changes you are imagining by the term malpractice reform.
- For more than 20 years, trial lawyer Rick Boothman defended doctors and hospitals in malpractice lawsuits.
- Grassley also called for reducing health-care costs through better management of chronic conditions and capping the damages in malpractice lawsuits.
- He claimed that you did not mention malpractice insurance on camera, but I am glad you mentioned that the issue of malpractice is covered in your book.
- Defensive medicine is just one of the supposed systemic ills that doctors, doctors 'lobbies and doctors' insurers invoke when they shill for what they call malpractice reform.
- At the PP meeting held this afternoon, the UML decried what it called the malpractice of trying to send the nation back to the old constitution and also the talks on drafting the constitution from the streets.