What's the difference between malepractice and malpractice?
Malepractice
Definition:
(n.) See Malpractice.
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Malpractice
Definition:
(n.) Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
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(1) This article examines current statutory and common law analyses of malpractice issues in transplantation, with particular attention given to issues of informed consent as they arise both for the organ donor and donee.
(2) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(3) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
(4) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.
(5) Clegg first called for Murdoch to withdraw the bid on Monday, when Cameron had also said he thought Murdoch's priority should be to sort out malpractices in his company rather than trying to clinch what could eventually be a takeover costing roughly $15bn (£9.4bn).
(6) This paper explores some possible causes for the refusal of Virginia's insurers to write malpractice coverage for obstetricians and analyzes the ability of the act to resolve the medical malpractice crisis in obstetrics.
(7) Practice guidelines have the potential to reduce the number of malpractice cases and the costs of settling them.
(8) Malpractice lawsuits due to temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and odontostomatognathic (OSG) injuries following dental therapy are increasing.
(9) The median number of days lost from practice to defend a malpractice suit was three to five, and 6 percent of the physicians surveyed incurred some out-of-pocket expenses.
(10) Malpractice concerns may also contribute to this age effect.
(11) Concerning the 16 year-old girl the authors think that medical malpractice and carelessness of the parents were involved.
(12) For the past 3 years, the Committee on Professional Liability of the American Society of Anesthesiologists has been studying records of closed malpractice claims files for anesthesia-related patient injuries.
(13) He concludes that a sensitive and effective relationship between treaters and patients remains the best safeguard against malpractice litigation.
(14) The increasing operating expense, mainly due to rising malpractice insurance premiums, required suspension of the program in December 1986.
(15) Abuses thet do exist should be handled through writs of habeas corpus and malpractice suits, remedies much more available now than in the past.
(16) To those physicians who have eliminated obstetrics from their practice in the past five years, fear of litigation and increasing malpractice insurance costs were significantly more important issues than to their colleagues who had stopped doing obstetrics prior to 1976.
(17) This first part of a two-part article on how tax laws and Medicare regulations affect hospital malpractice insurance discusses self-insurance mechanisms, particularly trust funds.
(18) The prosecutors in the case showed a video of alleged malpractice outside a Suez police station in 2011.
(19) An alternative to the current litigation-oriented medical malpractice system should be established and centered around a four-member Medical Malpractice Tribunal composed of a general physician, an expert physician in the specialty area of the claim, an attorney, and a lay person.
(20) Dental trauma is the largest single reason for successful malpractice claims against anaesthetists.