Some medical errors are unreported or even unknown to patients. Only those that result in severe complications and death are known and reported.
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Criminalisation of medical judgment may interfere with appropriate medical decision making.
The number and value of medico-legal claims has increased.
Doctors and nurses fear arrests and being charged with culpable homicide even for minor mistakes.
Medical mediation has become a buzzword in health departments across the world as an alternative to taking legal action to solve disputes.
The UK Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the police in a case that questioned whether they should be liable for negligence after failing to prevent the murder of a woman in Wales in 2009. The court…
People with life-threatening or incurable diseases may be willing to try experimental drugs and unproven treatments, but they face the risk of exploitation. Is the law the best avenue to ensure that they…
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Senior lecturer in law, University of the Free State
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Part time lecturer in medical mediation, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Benin
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Associate Professor in Nursing, Stellenbosch University
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Adjunct Professor in the Department of Criminal and Procedural Law, Nelson Mandela University