Sunday, March 10, 2013

From U Padova: Medical malpractice and legal medicine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23455848


 2013 Mar 3. [Epub ahead of print]

Medical malpractice and legal medicine.

Source

International Academy of Legal Medicine, Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy, santodavide.ferrara@unipd.it.


As has often happened in other scientific and disciplinary contexts, the medicolegal community has provided the first example by: (a) respecting the Hippocratic oath of the third millennium, of knowledge, know-how and again the “search for the truth,” through the identification and self-report to the medical community of errors committed during the performance of one’s work and assistance; (b) posing an initial remedy to the heterogeneous detriment of the patient’s rights, through the triggering of a positive process aimed at “European consensus on ascertainment methodology and criteria for evaluating damage from medical malpractice,” on living and deceased persons.

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