Quotes About Malpractice

#1. 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

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

John Ralston Saul

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

Owen Wister

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Joe Baca

#7. 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

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

Tony Alessandra

#9. If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to - to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

Benjamin Carson

#11. God, A Poem
'I didn't exist at Creation,
I didn't exist at the Flood,
And I won't be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud-
'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I'm a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms

James Fenton

#12. Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through.

Louise Erdrich

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

Adam Haslett

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

Andrea Tantaros

#17. If planet Earth could get legal aid, then humanity would be facing the biggest malpractice suite in this spiral arm of our universe.

Steve Merrick

#18. 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

#19. It is not the job of the media to try to skew events but to report on events honestly. Anything else is journalistic malpractice.

James "Doc" Crabtree

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

Capers Jones

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

Diane Ravitch

#22. I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

Atul Gawande

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

Bill Keller

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

Nicole Krauss

#25. Sometimes, the only difference between a superhero and a supervillain is a malpractice suit.

Corey Redekop

#26. If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

Richard Selzer

#27. The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance.

Laurie Anderson

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

Joel Fuhrman

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Periodic Paralysis is not our friend

Susan Q. Knittle-Hunter

#32. What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.

Kim Van Alkemade