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Descriptor
English
:
Malpractice
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Mala Praxis
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Imperícia
Synonyms
English
:
Negligence
Negligence, Professional
Tree Number:
I01.880.604.583.524
N03.706.535.606
SP9.120.010.010
Definition
English
:
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)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
not restricted to med
malpractice
; coord IM with specialty (IM)
See Related
English
:
Insurance, Liability
Professional Misconduct
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
EC
economics
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
SN
statistics & numerical data
TD
trends
Record Number:
8491
Unique Identifier:
D008318
Occurrence in VHL
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