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Malpractice

"Malpractice" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Malpractice" by people in this website by year, and whether "Malpractice" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 44 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2017
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