The improvement of medicine involves not only the emergence of fresh methods of diagnosis and treatment, but besides a change in the relation between the doctor and the patient. The sustained increase in medical awareness and patient expectations has an impact on the number of interventions aimed straight at the actions of doctors, under criminal, civilian or professional law. It is precisely at the first phase in which the patient reports compensation claims or in any cases claims about the treatment of a doctor cannot stay passive. It is in the interests of medical personnel to effort to resolve the dispute amicably.
Why by mediation?
The specificity of medical matters first of all reveals a large emotional strength of each party. From the position of the patient, it is felt that there is simply a request to explain the medical event, to supply it with information – which it does not usually receive. frequently the motivation of a patient or his household is shown by the request to show respect, e.g. in the form of an apology, but besides the desire to change medical procedures to destruct akin events in the future. Financial issues are seldom the main link of the dispute. For a doctor to enter into conflict with a patient, a situation burdened with stress, a feeling of discomfort due to the anticipation of harming someone, risking the failure of a good reputation, or ending cooperation in a peculiar medical entity, it will not be beneficial for apparent reasons.
I invitation you to read the full version of my article on mediation in medical matters:
Newspaper_Lekarska_11_2019.pdf
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Karolina Wrzebel
lawyer/mediator
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