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Definition
professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage
- Imagine you work for an insurance company that sells doctors medical malpractice protection.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (73% in)
- Believe it or not, the risk of being sued for malpractice has very little to do with how many mistakes a doctor makes.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (74% in)
- 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.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (74% in)
- 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.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (75% in)
- What comes up again and again in malpractice cases is that patients say they were rushed or ignored or treated poorly.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (76% in)
- "People just don't sue doctors they like," is how Alice Burkin, a leading medical malpractice lawyer, puts it.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (76% in)
- Malpractice sounds like one of those infinitely complicated and multidimensional problems.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (86% in)
- 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.Four — Paul Van Riper's Big Victory (68% in)
- It's possible to thin-slice a surgeon's risk of being sued for malpractice on the basis of a small snippet of conversation.Five — Kenna's Dilemma (48% in)
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