Selected issues in, civil and labour liability of medical professions in Poland. Analysis of the jurisprudence and proposals for changes.

Iwona  Wrześniewska-Wal; Piotr Winciunas; Dariusz Hajdukiewicz; Katarzyna Sałbut

doi:10.36553/wm.135

Published: 2022-06-28

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022)

Selected issues in, civil and labour liability of medical professions in Poland. Analysis of the jurisprudence and proposals for changes.

Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal , Piotr Winciunas , Dariusz Hajdukiewicz , Katarzyna Sałbut

Wiedza Medyczna

Section: Original papers

https://doi.org/10.36553/wm.135

Abstract

The article presents the legal liability that may be borne by medical professionals, with particular emphasis on a group of doctors and dentists. The paper discusses the evidentiary and procedural aspects of civil and labour liability, together with relevant courtroom examples. Each of the above-mentioned types of liability has been commented taking into account the fundamental principle for the medical professions: provision of services in accordance with the current medical knowledge.

The systematically increasing number of compensation suits and long-lasting court proceedings, which do not always end in a positive decision for the defendant, i.e. a member of the medical personnel or a healthcare entity, prompts to seek other solutions to the dispute. The authors of the article indicate the need to develop a new, systemic solution to these issues based on a single structure, uniform procedures and premises for determining the right to compensation.

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medical knowledge, medical event, commission, mediation, doctor

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Wrześniewska-Wal, I. ., Winciunas, P., Hajdukiewicz, D., & Sałbut, K. (2022). Selected issues in, civil and labour liability of medical professions in Poland. Analysis of the jurisprudence and proposals for changes . Wiedza Medyczna, 4(1), 21–26. https://doi.org/10.36553/wm.135

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