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Damages in medical malpractice
Maturová, Magdaléna ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Švestka, Jiří (referee)
The purpose of my thesis is to analyse legal regulations of damages in cases of medical malpractice. The reason for my research is the increasing number of the above - mentioned cases in Czech Republic as well as the fact, that the contemporary legal regulations seem to be unsatisfactory, in particular with regard to damages for pain and suffering. The thesis is composed of seven chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of damages in medical cases. Chapter One and Chapter Two are introductory and define basic terminology used in the thesis: Medical facility, medical staff, informed consent and lege artis performance. Chapter Three examines liabilty according to the Czech Civile Code in the general way, regarding to it's functions. Chapter Four is focused on the liability in cases of medical care and attempts to zoom in the characteristic features of such cases. The chapter is subdivided into four parts and provides an outline of relevant Czech regulations of liability. Whereas part one is intoductory, part two targets an obligation to prevent damage. Part three describes general liability according to the provision of § 420 of Czech Code Civile and provides an analysis of its particular presumptions such as (i) infringement of a legal duty, (ii) damage, (iii) causality and (iv)...
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Criminal liability in healthcare with focus on an analysis of Czech and Slovak court rulings
Kodýmová, Kateřina ; Sovová, Olga (advisor) ; Císařová, Dagmar (referee)
1 Criminal liability in healthcare with focus on an analysis of Czech and Slovak court rulings Abstract This master's thesis deals with the issue of criminal liability of healthcare workers. The aim of this thesis is to create a comprehensive overview of the Czech legislation of the relevant part of criminal law and individual institutes of medical law and to present related case law. Slovak legislation is used for comparison. The thesis consists of six parts, the first chapter is focused on the legal regulation of medical law and its international and national sources. It also deals with types of legal liability of healthcare professionals such as civil, labour, administrative and disciplinary liability. The second and one of the most extensive chapters approaches criminal liability and its necessary conditions. It describes the current concept of crime in more detail as well as the analysis of the necessity of the principle of subsidiarity of criminal repression. It also includes legal regulation of criminal liability of legal entities. The third chapter is dedicated to a cardinal concept - lex artis as an appropriate level of expertise, which contains a number of obligations that every healthcare worker must comply with. The process of proving criminal liability of medical workers in criminal proceedings...
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Strategy of the defendant in medical litigations over damagesformedical malpractice resulting in injury or death
Kouřílek, Tomáš ; Holčapek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
1 Abstract The thesis is focused primarily on medical litigations in which either patient or (usually) his family apply for a remedy due to a medical malpractice (deviation from medical proffesional duty of care (lex artis) resulting in injury or death of the pacient. Author concentrate on this problematics from the perspective of defendant. At first, he think about setting targets of the hospital (defendant) in the dispute, then he consider ways to achieve these goals (which instruments can be used) . The thesis also consists of analyses of 20 medical litigations. Before the main part author introduces general theoretical questions and refer to the literature on which he based his thesis, as he decided to not deal with general issues. In this context he mentions areas to which, according to him, the doctrine does not yet provide answers. The author's research follows these questions and in following text he concentrates on them and tries to find the answers to controversial questions. These includes, for example, whether in practice the concept of "další nemajetkové újmy" is fulfilled the intention of the lawgiver, wheter the regulation of liberation of liability is applicable in medical litigations and what is its relationship with the "lex artis corrections". After this, the author specifies the methods...
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Doctor-patient relationship
Urban, Jan ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee)
Doctor- patient relationship Abstract This rigorous thesis entitled Doctor-Patient Relationship is focused on the analysis of the most important duties of a doctor in relation to a patient in the provision of health services. The first part is devoted to the historical excursion focused on the development of the relationship between doctor and patient during history. This part of the thesis describes the evolution from the historically prevalent paternalistic conception of the doctor-patient relationship to the more partnership model we know today. Highlighted are the possible advantages and disadvantages of the partnership model with regard to the patients complain about the lack of personal approach to them by doctors. In the rigorous thesis, a substantial part is devoted to the analysis of the term lege artis not only within its legal definition, but especially with regard to capturing the meaning of the term lege artis as understood in the literature and especially in the current case law. Attention is paid especially to the problematic aspects of the definition of the term lege artis and determining whether a particular procedure was lege artis or not. In this rigorous thesis there is also the question of whether it is possible for an average patient to determine if a given procedure in the provision...
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Lex artis - Legal Interpretation of the Issue (comparative analysis)
Mikulová, Magdalena ; Hendrychová, Michaela (referee) ; Frinta, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis goes into a problem of the legal interpretation of the term lex artis, which some authors describe as well-known term of unknown content. Generally, this term relates to the activities of doctors and other health care professionals within taking care of patients, and usually we can meet with the ablative lege artis, which is used to denote a professionally correct action. This term is in common usage also in the reference books and case law where the breach of the duty to act lege artis is considered to be a precondition for liability of physician or health care provider for injury to the patient. Certain difficulty of using the term lex artis lies in the fact that the legislation in force does not mention not even define this term and its meaning must therefore be inferred from legislation by interpretation. For the legal definition of lex artis is from 1st April 2012 considered the provision of s. 4 (5) of Act No. 372/2011 Sb., about Health Services and Terms (the Health Services Act), as amended, which defines appropriate professional standard of providing health services and which is from the early beginning criticized by the part of professionals for its alleged conflict with patients' rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. The aim of this...
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The issue of causality in the suits for damages
Kafková, Eliška ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Švestka, Jiří (referee)
The issue of causality in the suits for damages The subject of this thesis is the issue of causality in disputes relating to compensation for damage to health. Causation is a considerably miscellaneous institute, therefore, this paper deals with various aspects of this topic and its context. The writing focuses on cases in which damage was caused to health through providing health services, as this legal field is characterized by many specifics from other areas of liability. Firstly, the thesis aims at explanation of the concept of causation, its importance and development not only in law but also in other areas of human activity. Subsequently, the attention is focused on the significance of causation in law; after theories of causation are compared, its substantial features are described in comparison to the other elements of liability. Consequently, the work concentrates on processes through which the causal link is determined, on the selection of relevant causes and consequences and the relationship between them in cases involving their plurality. It does not forget to mention the importance of causation in the context of strict liability, particularly in its specific cases relating to the provision of health services. The core of this work is the issue of causation in disputes in which the...
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To criminal liability in health care
Mika, Zdeněk ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
As lege artis Medicinae is known such way of treatment and diagnosis, which is consistent with current scientific knowledge and practice. Literally the term means according to the law. Incorrect procedure medical worker is classified as non lege artis. In the context of criminal responsibility is the subject of a criminal offense in particular health professional (usually a physician) are typically the object: life, health, human fetus and interest in the correct medical procedures. Object of the attack is a person. Criminal Code of such conduct typically as non lege artis includes crimes against life, against health offenses endangering life or health, crimes against pregnant women. Expert is in the criminal proceedings usually required in order to assess the correctness of the chosen treatment procedure by an independent expert.
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Lex Artis-Legal Interpretation of the Issue (Comparative Analysis)
Mikulová, Magdalena ; Šustek, Petr (advisor) ; Hendrychová, Michaela (referee)
This diploma thesis goes into a problem of the legal interpretation of the term lex artis, which some authors describe as well-known term of unknown content. Generally, this term relates to the activities of doctors and other health care professionals within taking care of patients, and usually we can meet with the ablative lege artis, which is used to denote a professionally correct action. This term is in common usage also in the reference books and case law where the breach of the duty to act lege artis is considered to be a precondition for liability of physician or health care provider for injury to the patient. Certain difficulty of using the term lex artis lies in the fact that the legislation in force does not mention not even define this term and its meaning must therefore be inferred from legislation by interpretation. For the legal definition of lex artis is from 1st April 2012 considered the provision of s. 4 (5) of Act No. 372/2011 Sb., about Health Services and Terms (the Health Services Act), as amended, which defines appropriate professional standard of providing health services and which is from the early beginning criticized by the part of professionals for its alleged conflict with patients' rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. The aim of this...
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Disciplinary liability of health care professionals, relationship to criminal lability
Tomková, Kateřina ; Sovová, Olga (advisor) ; Císařová, Dagmar (referee)
The aim of this thesis called "Disciplinary liability of health care professionals, relationship to criminal liability" is to analyse and compare criminal and disciplinary liability in medicine and outline their relationship. Considering its topicality and interdisciplinary character, I found this matter to be very inspiring. Although the medical liability issue seems to be very popular and frequently discussed subject, there are some aspects and problems that need to be sorted out in order to provide the doctors with a minimal standard of legal certainity. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of any kind of liability rising out of medical profession. First chapter is subdivided into four parts briefly describing civil, labour, administrative and contractual liability relating to medicine. Chapter two focuses on criminal liability of doctors and composes of eight parts. First two parts reffer to the risk of fault, that any doctor can cause, and the ultima ratio principle. Part three illustrates the conditions of criminal liability. Part four adressess the issue of circumstances excluding illegality in medicine. Part five and six present the nature of medical intervention and define the term of health care professionals. Part seven and eight deals...
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Damages in medical malpractice
Maturová, Magdaléna ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Švestka, Jiří (referee)
The purpose of my thesis is to analyse legal regulations of damages in cases of medical malpractice. The reason for my research is the increasing number of the above - mentioned cases in Czech Republic as well as the fact, that the contemporary legal regulations seem to be unsatisfactory, in particular with regard to damages for pain and suffering. The thesis is composed of seven chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of damages in medical cases. Chapter One and Chapter Two are introductory and define basic terminology used in the thesis: Medical facility, medical staff, informed consent and lege artis performance. Chapter Three examines liabilty according to the Czech Civile Code in the general way, regarding to it's functions. Chapter Four is focused on the liability in cases of medical care and attempts to zoom in the characteristic features of such cases. The chapter is subdivided into four parts and provides an outline of relevant Czech regulations of liability. Whereas part one is intoductory, part two targets an obligation to prevent damage. Part three describes general liability according to the provision of § 420 of Czech Code Civile and provides an analysis of its particular presumptions such as (i) infringement of a legal duty, (ii) damage, (iii) causality and (iv)...
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