Malpractices of Professionalism
September 5th 2010 -
The meaning of malpractices is very self explanatory. It does reflect that something incorrect is being done or exercised.
There are many kinds of malpractices in existence. In legal term, malpractice is a type of carelessness in which the professional on duty to act, fails to pursue by and large accepted professional standards, and that breach of duty is the possible cause of injury to a plaintiff who undergo the harm.
We have also heard many times about the malpractices in medical field; these include leaving scissors or any operational materials in stomach of the patients. For example, there are several recent complaints of the horrible treatment received by them at the hospital at Travis Air Force Base where an eight year old daughter watched her father die because of a doctor who misdiagnosed a fatal heart state. Such examples and news shows that a doctor who is considered at time as God can be a killer also due to his malpractices. This is negligence of a health provider who does not follow the medical standard and deviates from the care so accurately would have been provided and hence causes serious illness of organs either or death of a person. These medical malpractices are different in various parts of the world depending on the regulations and standards of that part. Malpractice laws are intended to dissuade unsafe medical practice and compensate persons injured through negligence though only a few cases of negligent injuries consequence in claims.
Day by day the malpractice is getting increased in number since last 35-40 years and the most frequent ones are those of medical malpractices wherein generally a surgeon or other specialists perform a great deal of hazards with the patients thus makes their life miserable.
The second place is that of lawyers which follows doctors’ malpractice. After medical malpractices, legal malpractices achieve the rank to compete. Under legal misconducts many errors are found that build a common legal negligence. At times, it has been seen that those who do not possess accurate skills of a lawyer, also consider themselves a lawyer and that becomes the reason for the clients to suffer with harassment, disloyalty, non-integrity etc…
Another professional malpractice is that of church or clergy who hurts the emotions of the followers by not just being and behave in the manner they should do so. The standard of church should not violate the rules made for such institutions. We, in past years have heard the news of rape case involving church authority, which is nothing but more than a malpractice.
As mentioned earlier the malpractices in different professions have only increased over the years and there must be a stop to all these malpractices to reduce the risks of victims and increase the faith in the professional attitude else there shall only be ‘bads’ and no ‘goods’.