The concept and grounds of medical professional liability

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to many social and legal factors. In modern conditions of the development and functioning of various systems for the protection of medical professionals and their patients, the concepts and grounds of medical professional liability are undergoing significant changes. The research of the conditions for the implementation of professional activities by medical professionals and their professional liability is determined by both scientific and practical considerations, since society needs orderliness and predictability of relations in areas of life directly related to the life and health of the patient on the one hand, and the business reputation of the medical professional on the other hand. With the emergence and expansion of professional activities types as integral attributes of social, economic and legal relations, a number of questions have arisen regarding a) improving the legal regulation of the professional activities of medical professionals; b) determining the goals of the medical professional liability; c) determining the medical professional liability grounds.
 The source base for the research is the valid legislation of Ukraine, laws and by-laws, research and comparison of which requires a systematic approach and various research methods, such as: dialectical, logical-legal, system-structural, forecasting and comparative law methods, as well as materials judicial practice.
 The article, first of all, concludes that the medical professional liability is applied to an individual entrepreneur (private practitioner) or a legal entity (health care institution) that provides medical services to the population, in accordance with a business license activities in medical practice, in case of causing harm to patients due to non-performance or improper performance of their professional duties, measures of government coercion in the form of sanctions (additional encumbrances) aimed at restoring the violated rights and interests of the patient. Secondly, it has been set that the medical professional liability shall arise only under the following grounds: wrongfulness of the medical professional, damage caused to the patient, causation and regardless of the medical professional guilt.