malpractice
91
6.5
- noun
- /mælˈpræktɪs/
:
negligencia profesional
- In cases of malpractice, victims can file lawsuits to recover damages from the responsible professionals.
- medical malpractice
- a malpractice claim
- malpractice insurance
The FDA is largely not protecting people from malpractice of healthcare providers.
- The FDA is largely not protecting people from malpractice of healthcare providers.
- So yeah, this is probably yet another malpractice and disbarment trap.
- They should be fired for incompetence, malpractice.
- They should be able to root out malpractice, monitor performance, track and question expenditure.
- They found the doctors who had the lowest warmth and competence ratings had the highest rate of malpractice lawsuits.
- This is so insane and such malpractice that I need a break.
- Well, I talk about I introduced this concept in the book and gross malpractice generally practice.
- It's, it's, it's really to me, it's, it's malpractice.
Examples
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Benson subsequently was sued by 24 former patients for malpractice and personal injury.
Fiction book (1992) -
The FDA is largely not protecting people from malpractice of healthcare providers.
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I believe you may be guilty of medical malpractice.
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Dad represented Roger in a malpractice suit.
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Then I can sue his doctors for malpractice.
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Physicians may even wish to consider purchasing malpractice insurance through the hospital's carrier.
Academic text (1993) -
If doctors are practicing medicine that harms patients, malpractice laws protect patients against that.
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They say I could later sue them for malpractice.
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Doctors and hospitals don't want to get sued for malpractice.
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Moreover, charges of corruption and malpractice have recently tainted the Hong Kong legal profession.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
131
4.6
Wrong behavior by someone in a trusted job
80
6.5
Failure to take proper care that causes harm or loss
1
7.0
Actions that break the law or are unfair
Antonyms
Compounds
9
4.3
Insurance that pays costs when someone sues a professional for a mistake
How Negligent
- Formal
4
7.5
91
6.5
- Specialized
80
6.5
16
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word malpractice breaks into mal- meaning 'bad' and practice meaning 'work' or 'usual way of doing something'. So malpractice is literally 'bad practice' — when a professional does wrong or careless work, which is why it means improper or illegal behavior by a doctor, lawyer, or other trusted professional.