[Compensation for medical accidents resulting from the delivery of health care].

The law of March 4, 2002 created procedure of a friendly, contradictory compensation and rapid in supplement of the already existing procedures. This device financed primarily by the social security allows the integral repair of the no faulty medical accidents that the medical act was carried out at the hospital or within a liberal framework of care. However, certain conditions are required so that the request is admissible: the realization of the medical act must be posterior to the 4/9/2001 and the undergone damage must be serious.

[Medicolegal responsibility].

It was from 1835 onwards that jurisprudence considered that the doctor was responsible for his acts and that he must answer to what he does. Yet it took the Mercier act of 20/5/1936 that specified that between the doctor and his client exists a true contract comprising, for the doctor, an undertaking if not obviously to cure the patient, then at least to not give non-specific care but conscientious and attentive care and, except in exceptional circumstances, to conform to the body of evidence of science. This contract is based on a relationship of confidence, and even an involuntary violation of this contractual obligation is sanctioned.