The Legal nature of guidelines of scientific societies in the light of the Polish legal system.

Introduction: The paper aims to establish the legal nature of the guidelines in the Polish legal system and the possible formal consequences of introducing such guidelines (litigation, professional responsibility) as well as practical implications concerning the method of treating patients.

Methods: Analysis is clarifying fundamental issues that largely determine the content of the study. The basic assumption is to analyze the legal nature of the prepared guidelines from the point of view of public law, i.