Doctors and the patients’ claims. Analysis of judicial practice

Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal

doi:10.36553/wm.19

Published: 2020-02-27

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020)

Doctors and the patients’ claims. Analysis of judicial practice

Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal

Wiedza Medyczna

Section: Original papers

https://doi.org/10.36553/wm.19

Abstract

Patient rights have an increasingly significant impact on the conditions of therapy and on daily clinical practice. The fact that law might affect the doctor’s approach is confirmed in particular by the case law illustrating the claiming attitude of patients. The purpose of this study is to discuss selected verdicts of medical courts which show that it is not always the diagnosis and treatment that the patients complain about. It is important to review those issues in order to include them in the teaching programs for undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine

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medical doctor, medical court, liability

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Wrześniewska-Wal, I. (2020). Doctors and the patients’ claims. Analysis of judicial practice. Wiedza Medyczna, 2(1), 9–13. https://doi.org/10.36553/wm.19

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