"Malpractice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... newspaper drawn from his vest pocket as he mounted the desk. Every case he had ever treated and all its details appeared to be thoroughly fixed in his recollection. He sometimes wrote medical essays for publication, but with evident reluctance. In cases of malpractice Dr. Delamater was the especial dread of the attorney whose side he did not favor. His full, clear and logical statements made a deep and generally an irresistible impression upon the ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... statute. I tell you, Cap, if the doctors and engineers and preachers were as subservient to greed and big money as the lawyers are, we would soon lose our standing. But when a lawyer commits some flagrant malpractice like that of Tom Van Dorn's—the lawyers remind us that the ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... the professor of a medical institute in Vienna known as the Elizabethinum. A patient, a young woman, is dying in one of the wards, the victim of malpractice. But her passing away will be painless. She is happy because she believes that she is on the road to recovery, that she will live to marry her beloved young man. Euphoria, the doctor calls her condition. To tell her the truth would be in his eyes criminal. ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... Malpractice and Medical Evidence, comprising the Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. By John J. Elwell, M. D., Member of the Cleveland Bar, Professor of Criminal and Medical Jurisprudence and Testamentary Law in the Ohio State Law College, and Editor of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... Rosa Bonheur, or Mrs. Stowe, or Mrs. Browning. And her heart yearned over each one of these and strove with power to nourish them into vigorous life that they might become jewels in her crown of rejoicing. She must not allow one to perish through her ignorance or malpractice, for she would keep her soul free from the charge of murder. And in the fullness of manhood and womanhood her pupils achieved the full symphony of life. They had won the goals toward which their teacher had been leading. Their spiritual qualities had converged and become ...
— The Reconstructed School • Francis B. Pearson
... about the ways of changing, but meanwhile the law of competition and "progress" adds machines to the world, still further enslaving men and women. We cannot do without machines,—nor can we do without free men and women. The fact is that competition is a spur to production and to industrial malpractice, since the generous employer must adopt the tactics of his competitors whether in a Southern mill town or ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... you are determined to adopt illegal means? I refuse to have anything to do with the malpractice you propose. You objected to a phrase in French, Mr. Sanderson, perhaps one in Latin will please you better. It is "Veritas praevalebit," which means, "Truth will prevail." I shall set your mind entirely at rest regarding your son. Your son at this moment occupies a humble, if ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr
... opposition to medical legislation, and the report of his very spirited and effective lecture in the Des Moines Register shows that he carried his audiences with him, and roused enthusiasm in opposition to the law. Dr. F. related some terrific cases of malpractice by eminent physicians, and portrayed the horrible effects of the law ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 - Volume 1, Number 12 • Various
... merits, hates her step-sons; it is supposed to be a feminine mania from which none of them is exempt. If the disease had taken a wrong turn, and the medicine failed of its effect, there would very likely have been suspicions of intentional malpractice. ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata |
