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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



... Will they place their own great reputations and highly esteemed characters behind, and as vouchers for, many a practitioner with whom they would not meet in consultation, and whom they would not allow to practice or malpractice in the house of a friend or a patient? We think not—we KNOW they would not, for such endorsements and guarantees would be impossible of fulfilment. And if they will not and cannot, they wshould cease to stand between the society that seeks 'to ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell


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


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