Great expectations: medical accident tribunals in the Popular Republic of China

Due to deep economic and social changes in China health care delivery faces severe difficulties in order to satisfy the patient’s needs, thus leading to frequent conflict between patients and health care facilities and/or doctors. Since regular courts seem unable to solve medical litigation cases in...

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Autores: Raposo, Vera Lúcia, Iong, Man Teng
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Repositorio:Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br:article/335
Acceso en línea:https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/335
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:tribunais do acidente médico
China
responsabilidade médica
direitos dos pacientes
conflitos médicos
Medical Accident Tribunals. China. Medical Liability. Patient’s Rights. Medical Conflicts.
Tribunales de accidentes médicos. China. La responsabilidad médica. Los derechos de los pacientes. Conflictos médicos.
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Sumario:Due to deep economic and social changes in China health care delivery faces severe difficulties in order to satisfy the patient’s needs, thus leading to frequent conflict between patients and health care facilities and/or doctors. Since regular courts seem unable to solve medical litigation cases in a way considered satisfactory for both parties Chinese government created the so called “medical accident tribunals”. These courts are characterised by two main notes: on the one hand, their composition, since, unlike regular courts, they are composed by deciders with medical expertise; on the other hand, the fact that the activity developed by these courts is restricted to the field of medical liability, thus, this specialization allows them to decide faster and supposable in a more just way. However, and despite the main development that medical accident courts represent, they are just a small piece of the main reform required by medical conflicts around China.