clinicidal

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English

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Etymology

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clinicide +‎ -al

Adjective

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clinicidal (comparative more clinicidal, superlative most clinicidal)

  1. Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, clinicide.
    • 2007 August, Robert Kaplan, “The clinicide phenomenon: an exploration of medical murder”, in Australasian Psychiatry:
      Many clinicidal doctors have extreme narcissistic personalities, a grandiose view of their own capability and inability to accept that they could be criticized or need assistance from other doctors.
    • 2012, Ronald Schouten, James Silver, Almost a Psychopath, →ISBN:
      On the other hand, some clinicidal doctors seem to have extreme narcissistic personalities—the full-blown “God complex”—that leads them to believe that they have the right to decide whether someone lives or dies.
    • 2013, Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
      A clinicidal GP need travel only a short distance to find vulnerable victims; with a list of registered patients from which to select, and multiple excuses for scheduled (and unscheduled) encounters behind closed doors, the clinicidal GP in the NHS is in an advantageous occupational position.