[Legal aspects of medical errors].

Acta Chir Iugosl

Klinika za ortopedsku hirurgiju i traumatologiju KCS, Beograd.

Published: June 2011

Healing people and medical care are together highly organized technological system with significant expert, ethical and legal regulative. Taking medical care is very sensitive area and it interfears deep into one's integrity, so the law is necessary in this area as a regulator. The aim of work is to show medical errors from legal aspects and clinical practice. Errors, negligent conduct during the medical treatment and bad results of medical treatment are categories that can easily be switched or can sublime themselves into the same thing. That is why correct differentiation of medical errors and viewing every way of medical errors appearance is necessary.

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