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Quotes About Malpractice

The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.
~ Adam Haslett
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
~ Joe Baca
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
~ John Ralston Saul
I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.
~ Wesley J. Smith
The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions
~ Ibrahim Ali
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.
~ Ben Quayle
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
~ Tony Alessandra
baratteria, il termine con cui genericamente si indicavano corruzione, concussione e peculato. La baratteria era l'incubo della vita politica italiana (nel Medioevo, s'intende)
~ Alessandro Barbero
Corruption is everywhere, man.
~ Hugh Masekela
Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're an obscure judge whose name ID hovers between infinitesimal and zilch, it's political malpractice to neglect social media. I'm probably the tweetingest judge in America, which, admittedly, is like being the tallest Munchkin in Oz.
~ Don Willett
Is it his job to lie?" "No, but you're assuming it's a lie. Reasonable people can disagree and have opposing interpretations of the facts. It's Jonathan's job to present an interpretation that's favorable to his client. It would be malpractice for him to do otherwise." When she said it she was stiff and testy, and it felt like we were having a confrontation.
~ Robert Crais
The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance.
~ Laurie Anderson
It's more than surprising," Brian said. "To me it smacks of malpractice, especially when there's a good chance they didn't do any testing because I owe them so damn much money and they were afraid they'd not get paid. And that's on top of treating us like second-class citizens, making us wait for so long.
~ Robin Cook
Diagnostic errors contribute to 40,000 to 80,000 deaths per year in the United States. And reviews of malpractice cases have demonstrated that diagnostic errors are the most common
~ Robert Wachter
Can you imagine what it's like to be a legal malpractice lawyer? The clients are the worst! They're all lawyers!
~ Lisa Scottoline
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
~ Joe Baca
The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.
~ Joel Fuhrman
I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.
~ Atul Gawande
A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.
~ John Goodlad
Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~ Anton Chekhov
The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.
~ Joel Fuhrman
The average doctor in a high-risk practice like surgery or obstetrics is sued about once every six years. Seventy percent of the time, the suit is either dropped by the plaintiff or won by the doctor in court. But the cost of defense is high, and when doctors lose, the average jury verdict is half a million dollars. General
~ Atul Gawande
Most surgeons are sued at least once in the course of their careers. Studies
~ Atul Gawande
that doctors avoid them in order to cover up evidence of malpractice.
~ Atul Gawande