2. Physicians are responsible for:
• Providing sincere care that should be
consistent with the fixed technical assets
• Preserving patient's safety.
• keeping medical knowledge and skills up to
date.
However the physician is not commitment to
ensure the achievement of healing because
the lack of healing has many causes no
authority to doctor them.
3. Medical error
• Doctor is responsible for any
consequences resulting from lack of
knowledge that do not occur from an
attentive doctor at the same
professional level and having the same
external conditions.
• knowledge of the patient about harm
does not absolve the doctor from
responsibility
• Doctor is not subject for liability if the
proven error is technically debatable.
4. Degree of error
Simple error
• does not
belong to
the art of
medical
profession.
Technical error
• occur whenever
the doctor violates
the rules of his
career as in errors
in diagnosis or
treatment.
5. Examples of common errors:
• Unsterilized instruments
• Negligence in the anesthetized patient.
• Forgetting dressings in the patientיs
abdomen
• Inaccurate description of the dose of
toxic drug.
6. principles of Medical Responsibility
• Occurrence of error by doctor or
one of his assistants
• occurrence of harm to the patient
• evident causal relationship
between the harm and the mistake.
7. Aspects of the Responsibility resulting from medical error
(1) Criminal Responsibility:
If the act constitutes a crime (to kill or wound or permanent
disability, ....) either intentional or a unintentional.
criminal punishment is requested by public prosecutors in
front of the court where abdication or reconciliation are not
allowed.
(2) Civil Responsibility :
Which is to compensate the handicapped person about what
happened to him from physical or moral harm, it is filed by
the victim or his relatives and abdication or reconciliation
are allowed.
8. (3) Administrative responsibility:
in the form of disciplinary sanctions signed by the
government or administrative institutions (Ministry
of Health, university, .....).
(4) Disciplinary responsibility of medical syndicate:
Represented by disciplinary sanctions That can be
signed by the medical syndicate according to
syndicate laws.
