All 9 Uses
malpractice
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
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- Imagine you work for an insurance company that sells doctors medical malpractice protection.†
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- Believe it or not, the risk of being sued for malpractice has very little to do with how many mistakes a doctor makes.†
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- Analyses of malpractice lawsuits show that there are highly skilled doctors who get sued a lot and doctors who make lots of mistakes and never get sued.†
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- At the same time, the overwhelming number of people who suffer an injury due to the negligence of a doctor never file a malpractice suit at all.†
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- What comes up again and again in malpractice cases is that patients say they were rushed or ignored or treated poorly.†
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- "People just don't sue doctors they like," is how Alice Burkin, a leading medical malpractice lawyer, puts it.†
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- Malpractice sounds like one of those infinitely complicated and multidimensional problems.†
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- At the same time, the threat of malpractice has made doctors less and less willing to take a chance on a patient, with the result that these days only about 10 percent of those admitted to a hospital on suspicion of having a heart attack actually have a heart attack.†
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- It's possible to thin-slice a surgeon's risk of being sued for malpractice on the basis of a small snippet of conversation.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(malpractice) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)