Malpractice Quotes

• A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.

  Andrew Saul

  Errors, Guarantees, Care

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There's a difference between responsibility of the policy and responsibility of the practice. In any practice, you have malpractice, that's another issue. When you talk about state and President, you always talk about the decisions and the policy.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Responsibility, Practice, Differences

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Quality, Reform, Care

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• In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

  Tony Alessandra

  Inspirational, Medicine, Diagnosis

  Tony Alessandra, Phil Wexler, Anthony J. Alessandra, Rick Barrera (1992). “Non-Manipulative Selling”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

  Owen Wister

  Soul, Damage, Truth Is

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.

  Richard Lamm

  Doctors, Practice, Medicine

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• The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Running, People, Causes

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Process, Duty

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• I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.

  Wesley J. Smith

  Ironic, Pockets, Use

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• I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

  Ron Suskind

  Doctors, Views, Ideas

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• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Issues, Attention

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• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Doctors, America

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• I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

  Ben Quayle

  Trying, President, Reform

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• The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Use, Lines

  Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

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• The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Offering, Fasting, May

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• Medical malpractice - that's a great issue for Republicans and you didn't hear anyone talk about it.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Issues, Medical, Republican

  Source: themoderatevoice.com

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• Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.

  Clayton Christensen

  Pain, Book, Writing

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

  Ivan Illich

  Diagnosis, Problem, Ethical

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

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• A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

  Capers Jones

  Technology, Use, Lines

  Capers Jones (1997). “Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

  John Ralston Saul

  Money, Doctors, Today

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

  Derek Jarman

  Christian, Men, Epidemics

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Educational, Ideas

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• The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

  Nicole Krauss

  Giving, Advice, Five

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.84, Anchor

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• Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

  Bill Keller

  Abet, May, Enough

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