The concept and essence of a legal conflict in the field of medical activity

This research is devoted to the disclosure of problematic issues related to the study of the legal nature of legal conflicts between subjects of medical legal relations, primarily to prevent the emergence of conflict situations, or to mitigate their consequences and suppress.Within the framework of this article, a theoretical and applied research was carried out to clarify the essence of the concept of «legal conflict», including in the context of medical activities, as well as the essence of such conflict situations and their specific features were analyzed. The position is argued according to which the occurrence of a legal conflict in the aspect of carrying out medical activities is the basis for protecting the rights of participants in medical legal relations, taking into account, first of all, that medical activity is inextricably linked with a sufficiently large number of potential grounds for patients to be dissatisfied with the provision of medical care, despite for continuous improvement of both the treatment method and the use of the latest treatment methods.To achieve this goal, the author applied methods characteristic of legal science. The study was carried out using the dialectical method of cognition of legal reality, provided an opportunity to analyze the essence of legal conflicts in the field of medical activity, while the use of the systemic-structural method made it possible to determine the general structure of the work, which contributed to the proper disclosure of the research objectives.Based on the study, the author comes to the conclusion that a legal conflict in the aspect of carrying out medical activities is a dynamic process, the existence of which implies the need to study the prerequisites for its occurrence, the essence of the conflict situation itself and the content of such a conflict, in order to prevent the possibility of their occurrence or mitigate their possible negative consequences.