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What does malpractice mean?

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Noun
  1. The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
  2. Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
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They've been helped by the fact that medical malpractice rates really are at record highs, and doctors are understandably apoplectic.
Both revealed systematic malpractice, and led to the imprisonment of several senior detectives.
But this litigation is often the only means to protect society from medical malpractice or corporate malfeasance.
He said he supported the role of the media in exposing corruption, dishonesty and malpractice in public life.
Only honesty isn't likely if the reward for it is crucifixion in the press, four different malpractice suits and an exemplary jail sentence.
The previous chapter discussed the substantive law that governs malpractice cases.

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