medical malpractice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmedicalandmalpractice
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medical
adjective
uk/ˈmed.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈmed.ɪ.kəl/
related to the treatment of illness ...
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malpractice
noun[U]
uk/ˌmælˈpræk.tɪs/us/ˌmælˈpræk.tɪs/
failure to act correctly or legally when doing your job, often causing injury ...
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(Definition ofmedicalandmalpracticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Factors that prompted families to filemedicalmalpracticeclaims following perinatal injuries.
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A third and final relevant characteristic woven into the fabric of the contemporary healthcare environment is themedicalmalpracticesystem.
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Medicalmalpracticearises from the failure of a health professional to provide the quality of care required by law.
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To support disclosure of mistakes, an alteration of themedicalmalpracticesystem itself is necessary.
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Open communication along with an honest, sensitive approach will likely decrease the incidence ofmedicalmalpracticesuits.
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We begin with a somewhat unconventional - but increasingly accepted - analysis ofmedicalmalpracticelitigation, most specifically about the motivations of patients and patients' families who bringmedicalmalpracticeclaims.
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Second, there is a difference betweenmedicalmalpractice, substandard practice that causes harm, and medical maloccurrences (bad outcomes that are unrelated to the quality of care provided).
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Unfortunately, there are still many cases whenmedicalmalpractice, which could have been avoided, endangers patients' lives.
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Therefore, the allegations which are certainly around, namely, that there ismedicalmalpracticegoing on, is something which by no means has been proven.
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If this is true, it constitutesmedicalmalpracticeon a massive scale and must be investigated.
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Information on the numbers of people awarded lump sum damages payments and how much money has been awarded formedicalmalpracticebroken down by constituency is not collected centrally.
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Unless strong and urgent action is taken, thismedicalmalpracticewill continue to the detriment of people's health and it will be a danger to their lives.
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However, when it can be proved that a doctor is guilty of medical incompetence andmedicalmalpractice, it is right and proper that they should be suspended right away.
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In civil cases the jury trial still has extensive use and is causing chronic problems that even go to the economy itself—particularly in such fields asmedicalmalpractice.
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Medicalmalpracticecases there are very worrying, especially as they are tried by juries who have sympathy for the patient and none for the doctor who is insured.
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Claims under administrative law formedicalmalpracticeor other professional misconduct may also use a "plaint number".
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The incomes of managers and administrators, underwriters andmedicalmalpracticeattorneys, marketers, investors and shareholders of for-profit services, all are attributable to health care costs.
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His research examines the control of infectious disease, placebo effects, antibiotic resistance,medicalmalpracticeliability, and the conduct of and inferences from medical trials.
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Standards and regulations formedicalmalpracticevary by country and jurisdiction within countries.
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These methods include morbidity and mortality conferences, autopsies, case analysis,medicalmalpracticeclaims analysis, staff interviews, and even patient observation.
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