Open AccessDoctors and the patients’ claims. Analysis of judicial practice
Author(s) -
Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
wiedza medyczna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2657-9669
DOI - 10.36553/wm.19
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , order (exchange) , clinical practice , medical practice , psychology , law , medicine , medical education , political science , family medicine , communication , finance , economics
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