Legal bases of medical activity in Ukraine

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Legal bases of medical activity in Ukraine

• Lecture 10.
• Associative-professor V. Franchuk

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This chapter introduces the field of expertise in
which the law and medical science interface
legal medicine. Enormous opportunities exist in
this relatively little known but burgeoning
scientific area. However, the sacrifices necessary
to become an expert in legal medicine are
considerable. To be truly qualified, a person
must earn degrees in a scientific specialty and
law. Once the person has obtained the requisite
credentials, battle must be done
with anachronistic political systems and methods
of investigation in order to use the hard-learned
modern techniques.
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Particularities of medical activity

• A person, its health and life means the object of
  medical activity.
• Extra ordinal variability of the diseases among
  the patients together with violent development of
  medical science.
• Daily performance by physician very important
  public activities.

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Unfavourable results of doctors activity

• Medical errors
• Accidents
• Professional offences of medical workers

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Medical errors

• Are the actions of the doctor at which the
  intention or imprudence is completely excluded.
  This is the honest mistake of the doctor.

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Causes of medical errors

• Objective
• Subjective

• Imperfection of medical science
• Objective difficulties in the diagnostics

• A little practical experience
• Failure estimation of the clinical and additional
  data of the patient examination.
• Wrong estimation by the doctor his own knowledge
  and skills.
• Humanistic defects of the doctor.

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Types of medical errors

• Diagnostic
• ??ctical
• ??chnical
• Errors in medical documents
• Deontological

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Accidents in medical practice

• Are understood as failures of treatment of the
  patient as a result of casual coincidence of
  circumstances.
• If such failures occur, criminal and civil cases
  can be initiated for judicial estimation of
  illegal actions of the medical personal.

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Types of juridical responsibility

• Administrative
• Discipline
• Civil
• Criminal

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Thanks for attention!