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Malpractice

Failure of a professional person, a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Failure of a professional person, a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Negligence
  • Negligence, Professional
  • Professional Negligence
  • Professional Negligences

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6 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

not restricted to med malpractice; coord IM with specialty (IM)

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  1. I01w.880w.604.583w.524w
  2. N03w.706.535w.606w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Malpractice. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008318. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008318
  2. Malpractice. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpractice
  3. Malpractice. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318836