Criminal medical liability in the context of Covid-19 pandemic.
Tunis Med
; 98(5): 334-342, 2020 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-602470
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 infection causes to medical community many difficulties worldwide. In addition to its therapeutic problems, it can generate situations with high medico-legal risk to doctor who can see his criminal medical liability engaged. In fact, in Tunisia, this new infection imposes many specific legal obligations. Some of these obligations have recently been introduced, therefore still little or not known by doctors, despite the need for them to comply with. In this paper, we propose to analyse the circumstances of medical practice in Covid-19 pandemic period , which risk to engage the doctor's criminal medical liability, and to set out the sanctions incurred, in order to protect health professionals against the specific legal risk of this emerging disease.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Physicians
/
Pneumonia, Viral
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Liability, Legal
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Coronavirus Infections
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Africa
Language:
English
Journal:
Tunis Med
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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